Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost weight. But he took the goading silently and performed the duties of his office until the day eight weeks ago when he finally retired. Five days later he was in the hospital-he had collapsed, mentally and physically...
...years ago David Lilienthal had won the respect of the nation with a warm and firm defense of his liberal credo. Last week, again under fire and retreating in confusion, he lost some of that respect...
When Calumet's own foals begin dropping early each year, no time is lost preparing them for their goal in life?the race track. Halters go on the wobbly legged foals when they are only two days old. Ben Jones and his hard-working farm manager, Paul ("Dutch") Ebelhardt, like horses to get used to human hands early. After that, the Calumet education proceeds with the greatest caution and care. Yearlings, for instance, are legged-up three months before being called on for speed over the farm's three-quarter-mile training track...
Easy Essays. Five years ago, Peter Maurin, who had stripped himself of everything else, lost the use of his mind, through arteriosclerosis of the brain. Virtually unable to think or talk, Maurin numbly lived out the end of his life at one of the communal farms he helped build near Newburgh, N.Y. But every issue of the Catholic Worker has carried at least one of the old "Easy Essays," and readers unaware of Maurin's illness have often written in to congratulate him on their timeliness. Wrote...
Like Harvard, Yale lost heavily to graduation last June, but, unlike Harvard, the Blue has been augmented with men from a fine 1948 freshman team. However, Yale still boasts one nationally known performer--Rola...