Word: recoup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...M.I.T. sailed for ahead in a moderate but steady easterly wind, gaining 141 points in 13 races, Brown, Williams, and Dartmouth fought for second. The Harvard entries, however, outscored all except Tech on Sunday in a vain effort to recoup their Saturday losses...
...Lake Michigan to spawn, fishermen have flocked to brooks around the Great Lakes, have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town its first smelt jamboree in 1935. Scooping smelt from streams has never concerned him as much as scooping up tourists. Wryly he says...
...asking her to be the mother of his chicks (he having decided to enter her profession) is one of the few directly humorous touches in the play. To return to the hero, he buys a sure winner to recoup all his expenses in the coming dog show, but learns that she cannot be entered because of expected pups. Then he finds that the pups are not expected, only to win with Mr. Bones in the end after...
...anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates, thereby forcing the independent companies . . . to operate on a very close margin . . . and preventing them from providing any real competition...
...Charles Curry, 23, left for South America. In Peru a guide led them on a chase after chinchillas and they wound up with a plant by the same name. In Lima they ran low on money, so Partner Curry hurried back to the U. S. to recoup. Partner Urian went on to Chile, arrived with only $30. Near Santiago he found a man who had trapped several chinchillas and would sell five. When Partner Curry finally rejoined him, they wangled an export permit, packed their chinchillas in ice, started back to the U. S. On the way three chinchillas collapsed...