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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed 999, some 450 staff members remained to write and distribute propaganda. The new department took over 399 censors and press relations officials. By discreetly adding these two figures, the most doddering peer could realize for himself that only about 150 of the Ministry's personnel had actually lost their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 to 849 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Fayetteville, Ark., Texas Christian, undefeated and untied last year, showed that they missed little Davey O'Brien-the one-man gang of 1938 (now playing professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles)-as they lost their opening Conference game to Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Swarthmore's smart President Frank Aydelotte has the special and delicate job of looking after 96 of the best young brains in the U. S.-the Rhodes Scholars. After war was declared last month, Dr. Aydelotte (U. S. secretary for the scholarships) lost no time in calling his precious charges home from Oxford (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week not only Dr. Aydelotte but a solicitous nation demonstrated how much it prized Rhodes scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rhodes Scholars | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...year Keller graduated (1901) Walter Chrysler lost his tuba, and the month Keller left the Mount Joy High School Chrysler married sweet-faced Della Forker in the Methodist church at their home town, Ellis, Kans. From then on, life was all business for Walter Chrysler. He left the railroad business as a shop foreman for Chicago Great Western, became works manager for American Locomotive Co., got his first job in the automobile business in 1911 (age 36) as works manager for Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Studebaker's low-priced Champion, Commander and President ($660 to $1,095) have lost almost all exterior fixtures except close-fitting door handles. Trim and neat, the 1940s have new hood locks, optional overdrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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