Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want any one to think I have lost any of my powers. I am going to tell you incidentally the scores of a couple of big games so no one will think that, and then I will drop a small hint on the important matter so that any real smart fellow will know what to do about it. California will have a tough time with Stanford but the final score will be just about 12 to 7. And the same may be said of the Notre Dame outfit when it runs up against Northwestern. The latter may score...
Last week the astronomers notified the public that the hours from midnight to dawn during the week of November 11 would be the best possible time to watch the sky for the return of the long lost Leonids, a shower of meteors which, due to appear most brilliantly in 1932 should begin to be visible this month...
With the vast and ponderous machinery of Widener library it seems extremely unfortunate that it is so frequently impossible to obtain books either because they are "lost" or "overdue". It is admittedly difficult to attain perfection in such a large organization, but this can not excuse the high percentage of unsuccessful attempts to procure books...
...consideration of the powerful threats with which the library officials are armed, it is a rather lame excuse to say it is impossible to force the return of books. As for the lost books, they should either have a system of preventing this unfortunate event or else make better provisions for replacement. It would be interesting to see some statistics on the percentage of books missing out of the total asked for at the Delivery Desk. R. L. Richards...
...eleven met defeat for the third time this fall when it lost to a superior Bradford-Durfee team, 2 to 0. The first year men were outclassed, and could do little against their more accurate opponents...