Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle that the romantic French press and public lost interest in the entire business...
...care, medicines, quackeries. With an average of 4.64 persons per family, the individual outlay was $22.62. New York City, as a community, last year spent 150 millions caring for the sick -on doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, drugs, quackeries. That was a per capita cost of $25. The people also lost an estimated 75 millions by absence from work on account of illness. Some 2,400,000 visited the 675 municipal and private clinics...
...Gates derived his nickname from rumors that million-dollar stakes were reached at his "ambling sessions in Manhattan's late Waldorf- Astoria hotel. He bet on anything, gambled in stocks, grain and cotton by day, at poker and faro by night. Starting as a farmer boy, he made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar...
...team scoring its only run on a play which was bitterly disputed by the Blue leader, Garvey, and his mates. Ticknor and Donaghy singled in succession placing a man on first and second. Bassett then dumped one down to third and Aldrich in fielding it collided with Ticknor and lost the ball. Ticknor continued in as the Blue third baseman chased the pellet into left field. Yale's claim of interference was disallowed, and the run counted...
Competition between the English and American collegians dates back to the nineteenth century. The first set of games was held in London in 1899. Then, a team headed by J. T. Roche '99 of Harvard and T. R. Fisher '99 of Yale lost to Oxford and Cambridge...