Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years this once famous dining hall has struggled against the encroachments of the many cafeterias and restaurants which now crowd Harvard Square. Last year, in a final effort to recoup its past popularity, steps were taken by the University authorities which it was hoped would restore former enthusiasm for the Memorial Hall "Commons". Questionnaries were sent out to sound the attitude of the students, and in accordance with the majority of opinions expressed, a "cafeteroa" system was inaugurated where by the old tables were replaced by smaller ones, and men were permitted to pay by the meal instend...
...experiment would seem to have been unsuccessful inasmuch as the Elis failed to recoup their fallen fortunes even after the sugar had been injected, but the stimulating effects were clearly noticeable, and it was held that the defeat was due more to the strength of the opposing team, than to the absence of potency in the sugar...
Countess Michael Karclyi, known in Hungary as "Red Catherine," arrived in Manhattan on the George Washington "to recoup her lost fortune" by giving lectures at $250 apiece on Hungarian affairs before and after...
...bandits themselves are deserted soldiers from the armies of the Tuchuns (Military Governors). It is even possible that they are given "bandit furlough" in order that they can recoup themselves for their unpaid services to the Tuchuns. In any event, they are not a body of desperate characters, but a small, disciplined army...
Third, they want to recoup their losses sustained in 1922 when they reduced the price of Cuban sugar for the purpose of "dealing a deathblow to the beet sugar producers of America...