Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lives. Despite the Acadians indifference to their danger, however, only ten lives are definitely known to have been lost in Louisiana, though rumor has listed the dead at more than 100. Nine of the dead belonged to one family, a widowed woman and her eight children. Caught as the flood entered Plaucheville, the Widow Dupré fled with her children to the second story of her home. The water poured into the house, reached the second story, continued to rise. A rescue boat found the entire family huddled together, drowned...
Right Honorable Labor Members of Parliament lost their heads in a flush of rage last week, when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin introduced a long-threatened bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate...
...numerous arbitrary restrictions imposed on the medical profession by unnecessary restrictive enforcement regulations regarding medicinal agents. I need only mention the statement on the back of a recent issue of the Volstead prescription book: i. e., 'You are personally responsible for this book. It will not be replaced if lost and failure to properly safeguard it will result in revocation of your permit.' Such a statement may be characterized only as insulting to an honored profession."?Wendell C. Phillips, retiring President...
...business. In its way this pamphlet is the mature counterpart of the Freshman Red Book, also a very contemporary publication; for the Report is the first record of the whereabouts and the occupations of those men who for one year have been out of college and who may have lost touch even in this short time with their classmates. It is, like the Red Book, a valuable reference and an opportunity for general conclusions...
...Pinkerton '27, captain of the University polo team, will be lost to the horsemen for the balance of the season because of an injury sustained to his eye during a recent practice encounter at Dedham. Pinkerton returned yesterday from his home in New York, where he has been undergoing treatment, and immediately resigned his post as captain of the team. Holden White '28, of Dedham will succeed...