Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backers of the plan feel that there is a need for some such function as a prom to bring the Sophomores together near the end of the college year. Many of the acquaintances made in the Freshman year are lost due to different rooming arrangements, and a dance, as the logical solution, would do much, they feel, to renew these friendships...
Over the weekend, the Class A University Squash team lost to the Cambridge Squash Racquets Club; and the Class B team defeated the Class B team of the University Club...
Similar was the famed function of those ancient Roman slaves assigned to crouch in the chariot of each Conquering Proconsul as he enjoyed his Triumph. "Remember," the slave would whisper, "Remember thou art mortal!" Thus were swelled heads and rash, prideful deeds averted by an art now all but lost...
Perhaps it is fortunate that the theory didn't come earlier. We might have lost two very convenient lines of verse if Fitz-James had realized that his rock was shifting from its firm base at that very minute. And Juliet might have spoken more respectfully of "the inconstant moon"--which is now, by its very inconstancy, shown to be the villain in the piece, exciting supposedly immovable earth to the most unsettling twitches and tremors...
...winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only...