Word: recoup
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...Freshman squash team will give MIT a chance to recoup its earlier loss today, when the Yardlings meet the Engineers in the final half of an away home engagement. In the previous meeting, the Crimson scored a sweep of the five matches...
Domestic Manners of the Americans sold so well both at home and abroad that it established Frances Trollope as a professional writer (she wrote more than 20 novels and books of travels in the remaining 30 years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide...
Having suffered two setbacks in its struggle with CBS, NBC now hopes to recoup by making a talent raid on its ex-stepchild, ABC. Said Eiges: "NBC is negotiating with 'the greatest name in the entertainment world, an international figure.' " At week's end, the "name" was revealed-Bing Crosby...
...guerrillas recoup so quickly was explained last week by a Greek officer, who told this story of a guerrilla chieftain named Ypsilantis: "Last year 400 of Ypsilantis' band of 720 surrendered to me. By combat we reduced the remainder of his band to only five, and Ypsilantis fled to Albania. But I had also captured Ypsilantis' girl friend Sophia, who was very pretty. Seeing in her eyes that she was still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent...
...cultivated, gracious man, like Brooks a native of Minnesota, a Harvard graduate, and a financier. They worked together, dined together, and made money together. Then Brooks seemed to lose his touch. Watkins was forced to supply more & more of the working capital. Deals went bad. Brooks tried to recoup and failed. In 1939, Watkins reluctantly called it quits. Watkins got a court judgment for $72,000 he had put up, slapped attachments for $75,000 on Brooks's house. Now other creditors were badgering...