Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weeding men out in the Law School according to enrollment figures made public this morning is a rapid process. During the last six years Law School classes have lost an average of thirty six percent of their membership during the first year. That the selective means employed have been discriminating as well as swift is witnessed by the fact that second year mortality has averaged less than ten percent...
...mandates in Turkey. He is President of Trustees of the American College for Girls in Constantinople. But governmental and business missions are but slight reason for Mr. Crane's voyaging. His wayfaring is that of the perpetual explorer. He is a successful Ponce de Leon who continually finds lost, shining cities. "I discovered Asia in 1878," he says, with the air of one who had hitherto led a purblind, provincial existence. Russia alone has received him 23 times. This week he sails to Arabia...
Died. Bernette Gernsback III, daughter of Hugo Gernsback, Manhattan publisher of science and radio journals; when hit by a taxicab while stooping for a lost penny; in Manhattan...
Harden Franklin Taylor, 38, went from Government work (Bureau of Fisheries) to aid a sick industry (fisheries). Fish, even packed in ice, lost flavor, spoiled quickly, could be sold only near the coasts. The trouble was, he discovered, that the fish were frozen too slowly. So he invented a refrigerator for quick freezing. Now frozen fish are shipped throughout the country, housewives can vary their menus, and the Atlantic Coast Fisheries who supported the research makes money...
Though my mind should desire to preserve it, nevertheless it is lost...