Word: lost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting in Birmingham, England, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said: "Is this the last attack upon a small state, or is it . . . a step in the direction of an attempt to dominate the world by force? . . . No greater mistake could be made than to suppose that . . . this nation has so lost its fibre that it will not take part to the utmost of its power resisting such a challenge...
...Australians were 3-to-1 favorites to regain the Cup they had lost in 1920. Ambidextrous, 20-year-old John Bromwich (Australia's top-ranking player) and stocky, 26-year-old Adrian K. Quist (Australia's No. 2) have been considered the world's best amateur tennists since California's Donald Budge turned professional last winter and Germany's Baron von Cramm retired to the sidelines...
...apple trees just before crop maturity, were signally successful in preventing premature falls. In Science last week they reported that in tests on one troublesome variety ("Williams Early Red") only 2% of the treated apples fell before picking, whereas from unsprayed trees 65% to 90% of the fruit was lost...
...Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last week that it will be hung in the da Vinci exhibition as, in all probability, the master's long-lost and long-sought Madonna with...
Main new material in Daniel Boone deals with Boone's career after the Indians were licked, as politician, surveyor, land-hungry businessman. Biographer Bakeless defends Boone's honesty, says that no proof exists that Boone deliberately swindled clients who lost their land through faulty titles. Boone was only careless, says Biographer Bakeless, and not least careless in failing to anticipate a rush of smart lawyers...