Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thanks for reminding me that my subscription is about to expire. Inasmuch as I have lost track of this situation, here's a piece of good news. Kindly discontinue the magazine as I have no children young enough to appreciate...
...years one John Tracy, aged 90, of Pittsburgh, has officially been listed as a deserter from the U. S. Marine Corps. In 1864, while on a ten-day furlough to Baltimore, onetime Devildog Tracy took some drinks, lost consciousness, awoke on an oyster dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge...
...Manhattan last week from Kingston, Jamaica. Yet few on the pier knew him to be the man who for 40 years has been unlimbering stiff knees, setting dislocated joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...invading team comes to Soldiers Field with a record which insures the Crimson players enough opposition to put on a close and well-played contest. The Granite State nine has won from Tufts, conquerors of Yale, and lost a game to Dartmouth by only a narrow margin last Tuesday...
...Harvard team was beaten by Thomas by a score of 3-6, 8-6, 6-1. In the second match of the afternoon J. C. Reuter '28, beat Sturtevant, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2 while Robeson Bailey '29 playing in the closest match of the afternoon lost to Robertson 4-6, 6-3, 10-8. H. W. Sayles '28, playing number four for the University seconds was downed by Baldwin 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. In the other two singles matches S. G. French '28, beat Henry 6-3, 6-1, and Hyman Lisker '29 easily finished Huxley...