Word: loses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Smoot well knew, however, that if the committee fight went to the Senate floor, the Regular Republicans would lose against the same coalition of Progressives and Democrats which had already routed them on the tariff. So next day in the name of party peace he changed his mind, cast the deciding vote in the Committee on Committees which put Senator La Follette on his own committee...
When merchants fall out with publishers, as Pittsburgh's recently have, both sides lose money. Pittsburgh's press consists chiefly, of the Sun-Telegraph (Hearst), the Press (Scripps-Howard), the Post-Gazette (Paul Block). Because the stores are well organized in the Merchants Association (a coalition of eleven stores), and because the three big newspapers are chainpapers, a fight between them is crucial...
...British Government is said to have compiled a secret list of twelve paintings, now in private British collections, which authorities consider too precious to let England lose at any price. If such a list exists it could hardly fail to include Titian's Diana, and Actaeon, Reynolds' Master Crewe, Romney's Gower Children, Raeburn's The MacNab, Gainsborough's-portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland (owned by the King), Lawrence's Lord Lyndoch, two of Lord Ellesmere's Raphaels, or Rembrandt's Rabbi in a Chair. One picture which might well have...
...seemed inevitable that Harvard would lose the game, for Columbia had trampled on the Crimson 44 to 17 and yet been defeated by Army 37 to 31. And when the cadets began to roll up the score in the first few minutes until the score stood at 10 to 1, all predictions seemed likely to be fulfilled...
...their proponents rather than demonstrated proofs. Winning is what counts and the means does not, except as an added assurance to that end. Any pronounced leanings toward anglican customs are, justly or not, generally looked at askance in this country. The English idea that it is better to lose a well-played match than win a sloppy one is one transatlantic attitude that might stand a bit more importation...