Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University's latest admirer is none other than Miss Olivia "Skeeter" Mathews, of Dedham. Formerly prominent in society, she began to be bored with its "petty functions," and turned to aviation as a diversion. Before long she had become so absorbed in it that even dances lost their pristine appeal...
...Crimson malletmen were undefeated this year until they lost to the New York Athletic Club on Tuesday night. According to Coach Sharp, however, this defeat put the team in condition for the games in the Collegiate Tournament and he expects them to be in prime shape for tomorrow night's encounter...
...have gained a great deal in secularizing modern education but on the other hand we have also lost a great deal. The unifying influence in a moral and spiritual way provided by the chapel in the old denominational college has gone completely with the passing of compulsory chapel. The modern college is too specialized and has gotten away from this influence...
...Professor Langer says, these unsatisfactorily settled minority problems are the most dangerous questions in European politics and that the reason why "the present arrangements for the protection of minorities are inadequate" lies largely in the fault of the peace settlements; not least in the case of Hungary which lost, by the Treaty of Trianon, without any legal self-determination or plebiscite, three and a half millions Hungarians to the so called successor states, thus creating not one but four Alsace-Lorraines in the middle of Europe
...first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book is laid in the islands of the Aegean about 400 B. C. and, is based on the retrospective action of a comedy of Terence. Terence's play in turn was based on a lost original of Menander, so that the pilfering is merely contagious...