Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock to smug civilized security to learn that two men have actually been lost somewhere along the familiar lane between England and America. When Nungesser and Coli left Paris on their flight, the world looked on in satisfaction, anticipating the forging of another link in the long chain of human achievement. And now, in the excitement of the aviators' disappearance, there is a note of surprise...
...with some degree of safety. But all is not conquered yet, and it is such incidents as this latest flight which show unsuccess. With all the encroachments of science on the domains of sea and sky, that man still has need of triple bronze who, like the two lost flyers, or like Chamberlin and Bertrand, who are preparing their own trans-Atlantic trip, will venture against the perennial foes...
...University golf team will play its fourth match of the season this afternoon when it will meet the strong Union College team. The Union golfers have a record which shows only two matches lost in the past three years and should give the University some of the stiffest opposition it will meet this season. In its last match it made a clean win from Syracuse 5-0 in which only one match went beyond the twelfth green. Robert Cox has not been beaten in two seasons...
...Barbee '28, Harvard pitcher who has lost only one game in five starts, will serve in the box this afternoon. He is the most reliable of the Harvard mounds- men and his hurling should allow the University nine to put up its strongest front against the visiting players...
...Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some 50 feet. A row of trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters...