Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourth Reader was quite grown up, with more Bible selections and excerpts from Bacon, Addison, Milton, Shakespeare and an anonymous story about the woman who, by generously sharing her last smoked herring, rediscovered her long-lost...
...asked to gallop horse after horse every morning during the training hour. It took most of my strength away from me. I had no strength left to ride with during the afternoon. My riding became bad. We lost races which it seemed we should have won. I was riding the best horses, but couldn't win with them and I was blamed for the defeats. But I was still asked to gallop horses every morning. It was either quit Whitney or become a bum as a rider and so I quit Whitney...
...compared with a more mature understanding. The worst and most hectic tales of college life are written either by college students or by young graduates. And the more intelligent samples come from men who have been away from college long enough to discuss it calmly, and who have lost what may well be termed a sophomoric attitude toward life and academic environment...
...Scorer lost count after getting this...
Playing against Penr on the Agawamis Country Club links, the University golfers lost four of the six twosomes and all three foursomes. The best playing of the day was lone by Merritt of Penn who made the first nine holes in two over...