Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eielson Lost? Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced of all Arctic flyers, was probably groping over the ice packs off Cape North, Siberia, last week. Flyer Eielson knows the Arctic as well as the palms of his slim, steady hands, off one of which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a finger one day when his plane was forced down. For several years he piloted Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting...
...Visalia, Cal., Wayne Switzer, county surveyor, bet $2 on the Leland Stanford football team against Southern California with one Alden Jones. When he lost, Better Switzer paid Better Jones a piece of flypaper with 200 pennies stuck...
...Steubenville, Ohio, one W. T. Fryan lost his nose in an auto accident. Searchers found it in the wreckage, a doctor grafted it back on with 70 stitches, and Fryan breathed naturally an hour later...
...Silver, ran against Hanna's man McKinley, he was hardly known outside Ohio's borders. He worked at his father's grocery and shipping business until he had made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal-and-Iron-King Daniel Rhodes, lost his fortune and went into partnership with his father-in-law. Soon Rhodes & Co. became M. A. Hanna & Co. Long before he showed his whole political hand Hanna began to take an interest in politics. He attended the Republican conventions of 1888 and 1892, but he bided his time...
University team B defeated Newton Center by a 3-2 score, while the University team C journeyed to Brockton and won a 5-0 victory over the Walkover Club. In matches with the University Club the Freshmen lost their match in class' C 1-4 and in Class D were beaten...