Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Week after week, in thousands of halls, in darkened rooms over Main Street drugstores, men meet, exchange mystic signs and complicated handgrips. New members are sent upon symbolic journeys through wildernesses of sawhorses and overturned chairs. Old members toll bells and simulate the groans of lost souls, solemnly chant and portentously listen as the initiate promises to keep the secrets of the order or have his throat cut and his tongue pulled out by the roots...
...field of eleven jogged to the post. Vulcan's Forge, the co-favorite, had taken a beating during a violent storm on his plane trip from the East; he had been thrown to the floor, and had banged his hock and thigh. When the race began, he got lost in the shuffle and was not heard from again...
Built-in Drugstore. Virginia-born Dr. Still was a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), bearded frontiersman who studied the art of healing with his father, a medical missionary among the Shawnee Indians. In 1864, Still lost three children in an epidemic of spinal meningitis. The shock crystallized his dissatisfaction with current medical methods. After ten years of horse-and-saddlebag practice in Missouri, Still proclaimed his faith...
Though he would rather write about batons than bats, Cardus thinks that cricket expresses, in microcosm, the whole English character. "If everything else in this nation of ours were lost but cricket," he writes, "it would be possible to reconstruct [from it] all the eternal Englishness which has gone to the establishment of [the] Constitution and the laws...
...headquarters for their annual meeting last week, they felt that something important was out of place. Something was. It was Eversharp's ebullient ex-chairman, Martin Straus. In place of Straus, thick-jowled R. Howard Webster of Montreal, Straus's sworn enemy, was running things. Straus had lost control of the company which, in seven meteoric years, had risen, with the help of razzle-dazzle advertising ("the $64 question"), from a $12,078 deficit to peak sales (1946) of $46 million and a $4.2 million...