Word: lost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bygone Banners. Fiery Party Chairman Barbara Castle had opened the meeting with an old-style appeal for public ownership as Labor's great cause. "It's no use waving the banners of a bygone age," replied Gaitskell. "Nationalization, on balance, lost us votes...
This year is different, say some team members. The varsity has last season's great freshman team, which ended Yale's 66-meet winning streak. Yale has lost aces Tim Jecko and Roger Anderson, and several underclassmen. The Crimson wants to win badly, and all its dreams center on Payne Whitney Pool next March...
Despite this unprecedented increase in funds, University scientists emphasize they have not lost any "large measure of authority." Harvard does not permit government secrecy to circumscribe any research, and generally does not accept projects initiated by the government, according to Jabez C. Street, chairman of the Department of Physics...
True, Harvard has lost last year's top man, Captain Charlie Hamm; but three other members of the 1959 top five, Gerry Emmett, Tim Gallmey, and Fred Vinton, are back and playing one, two, and three for the Crimson. Helping them out is last year's freshman star, Romer Holleran, who ranked among the top half-dozen school-age squash players in the country when he played for Exeter...
...undecided on the exact make-up of his secondary lines, due to tight competition at all positions. Another healthy sign, the competition, has produced stiff, fast practices this last week, and has given the squad an increased incentive and spirit. As one player put it Monday, "Last year we lost several games which we entered as distinct favorites. This year that won't happen...