Word: lost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experienced cycler, Buder will be out to retrieve the honor and the $20 which he lost two years ago when he made a similar attempt and failed only because of a technicality which ruled him a pedestrian at the George Washington Bridge and which forced him to walk his machine across its crowded sidewalks...
Last Saturday, when Harvard lost to Dartmouth, probably even the dumbest Betty Co-ed in the stands realized that the Crimson team hadn't even started to roll. The sad fact was that it had not made one first down. As a Monday morning answer for the Dartmouth rout, Boston sports writers launched an acid personal attack on the leaders of the H.A.A., Harlow and Bingham especially. In fact, a typical mid-season bout of asparagus-throwing has followed Saturday's game. Some carping alumni are even criticizing the spirit of the players, and yelling for Harlow to turn...
...three Crimson casuals, Captain Torbie Macdonald and Mose Hallett, will be ready for limited play against the Tigers on Saturday. Macdonald will probably be used as a spot runner to put more punch in the attack at crucial moments. The third injured man, Joe Koufman, is definitely lost for the Princeton tilt with a leg bump received against the Indians. Yesterday Joe Devine replaced him in the A team, and Gene Lovett was shoved down to the second eleven...
...lyrical of left-wing poets, the Soviet-German pact seemed to "make nonsense of most of the left-wing writing of the past ten years." He saw the war as "the most extraordinary confusion, in which each side is fighting to produce chaos in the other before it has lost control of itself. ... As I haven't been told to do anything, I can devote myself to writing, perhaps my posthumous works...
...Corn family (squatters) through the whole of it-lawsuits, fraudulent surveying, sabotage, murder, abortive revolution-and, on the side, develops some creditable focuses in the enemy camp and in the mind of an ambitious and unscrupulous small town lawyer. By the time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably, has got what it was after; the lawyer's veering ambitions are disposed of, and Mr. Cheney has done a number of things which even better equipped novelists might envy...