Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Night foremen can become lifesavers only at their own risk, ruled last week Judge Nelson Mc-Vicar of the Pittsburgh Common Pleas Court. His decision saved the Fidelity & Casualty Co. $2,400, lost Mrs. Elsie A. Prettyman (widow of William A. Prettyman) the same amount...
...Prettyman] was engaged at the time on a highly commendable humanitarian purpose, but said purpose was no part of the business or affairs of the defendant company, nor was his injury caused in the performance of duties of the company." Thus, though Mr. Prettyman lost his life while employed by the General Contracting Co., and though he was engaged in the company's business when the accident happened, his widow was not entitled to a compensation award because he was not hired to perform lifesaving duties...
...Inquisitorial times, displeases the King and is shipped off to Porto Rico. There she tries to live up to her subtitled name of "she-devil" by delicately flogging her peons, riding like Tom Mix and crossing swords with an evil-visaged bandit. Despite Dukes, Duchesses, bandits and a lost daughter, there is scant hair-raising...
...teams now stand the Juniors are leading with two victories and no defeats to their credit. The Seniors are second, having won one game and lost another. The Sophomores have two defeats chalked against them and as yet have won no victories...
...cent success. Discipline was weak, we are told, and there were too many students who were only interested in having a good time; the food they say was not always good, and the ship was crowded; there were divisions of authority and petty squabblings among the leaders which lost the respect of the student body. None of these faults ought to be repeated, and all of them can be remedied. Indeed the plans for this fall of the Floating University Aurania seem to indicate that they are being remedied...