Word: lost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland finished fourth, running from a single wing. The Deacons lost three, tied one, and broke into the win column four times. Winthrop, Leverett, Adams, and Dudley finished next in that order...
...first year at Harvard, Lenzner was captain of his freshman football eleven, which lost only to Princeton during its season. A candidate for All-Ivy honors, the new captain was first-string guard this year and an important reserve during sophomore year...
...trickery, but uses the traditional two-on-one line blocking of the single wing. Nelson perfected the system at Delaware during the past eight seasons, produced a brand of pounding possession football (his favorite slogan: "Beloved are the bastards that grind it out"), and Delaware has won 53, lost 20, tied...
Stillness at Appomattox. In Memphis, Lawyer Robert E. Lee refused to defend Ulysses S. Grant, who was charged with public drunkenness, then explained: "What would people say if I lost the case...
CARTER'S LITTLE PILLS lost "liver" when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower court decision ordering Carter Products, Inc. to delete the word from name. FTC victory in longest case in its history (16 years, five months, eleven days) established that the pills have no therapeutic effect on the liver, are no more than a laxative. Carter has petitioned for a rehearing...