Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loud '29, first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is this year increasing the number of men elected from each class from 45 to 65. This change restores the old proportion of Phi Beta Kappa men per class that has been lost in recent years through the growth of the college, and in the future it will allow Phi Beta Kappa to take roughly a tenth from each class instead of a thirteenth or a fourteenth as has lately been the custom...
...have noted frequently, statements regarding an incident occurring in California in 1916, in which it was claimed that through some failure of Governor Hiram W. Johnson and Charles Evans Hughes to get together, Candidate Hughes lost California and the election, in November 1916. Each statement that you have made regarding this incident has been different and each one that I have read has been incorrect. It happens that I am quite familiar with the facts concerning the relations of these...
...page 9, the following statement appears: "Of pique in politics the historic example is Senator Hiram Johnson's rage at Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 for not handshaking "him in San Francisco. The 1916 election was so close that Mr. Hughes has always been said to have lost it by that one handshake...
...Swanson. Robert E. Crowe, the Republican incumbent beaten by Swanson in the primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special Prosecutor Frank J. Loesch, the fearless, aging Presbyterian whom Chicago's civilian Crime Commission engaged some months...
...sake of the bellcaster. Dramatically it was Baritone Giuseppe de Luca in a minor role who served best. As Nickelmann he never once stepped out of the well, just poked up his moss-covered head, beat his webbed hands against the side. Yet when with a "Brekekekex" he lost Rautendelein, the audience was sorrier than it ever was for Heinrich. And it was happier for the "Brekekekex" that won her back than for any of her flawless cadenzas...