Word: lost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study (which was essentially the case before the advent of the elective system) or were all interested in the same general field of knowledge (as is the case in a technical school), then many if not all of the educational values inherent to the House Plan would be lost. Fortunately, in each House there is a representative proportion of concentrators in all the different fields. This is of the utmost importance. For those who take advantage of the heterogeneous company into which they are thrown, the full meaning of the liberal arts college becomes manifest...
...three years, members of the class of 1939 formed the nucleus of the Varsity. As Freshmen, this year's Sophomore delegation lost only their first game of the season. On them Coach Dick Harlow will rely for reserves and for at least three starters for the Yale game. On them to a large degree, rests the success or failure of the 1939 Varsity...
...what a lot was lost to him- Not only there in Tientsin...
...from under the sledge hammer, might have cut someone in the studio audience. So a dinner plate was substituted for the paver. But when the prop man swung his little hammer, breaking the plate, he also dug quite a gash in the hobbyist's pate. Once a beekeeper lost control of some of his pets, who held Studio 36 against all comers for the rest of the night. A guest rooster flew off during a rooftop show, turned up later in the Tenderloin. Only this month, while Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was guest master of ceremonies in the absence...
...years later an angel named Moroni appeared to Joe. Introducing himself as one from the lost tribes who had emigrated to South America 600 years before Christ, Moroni told Joe the location of a set of golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted...