Word: beaten
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...Representatives, and during the last two years was speaker of that body. In 1905 he was a candidate for mayor of Boston. In 1908 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts and was twice reelected. In 1911 he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts and was barely beaten at the polls by Governor Foss, who was a candidate for re-election. He is now serving his second term as an Overseer of Harvard College, and has been also a lecturer on legislative procedure...
This contest will be fought as keenly as any formal game, even though the rewards of victory are slight. Those men who have been practising for a month have shown that team-play and spirit can be developed without the incentive of a definite rival to be beaten. Interest in the sport for itself has made the seven eager to practice. So, too, it welcomes the opportunity to meet the sailors. The debut of the informals in the Arena may lack the importance of a formal game, but not the rivalry...
Although both teams have been beaten badly in their preliminary games, Brown by the Newport Naval Reserves and Dartmouth by Tufts, the interest in today's encounter has not been lessened. This year has been an off season for both elevens...
...first football game this year in the Stadium is scheduled for Saturday, between the informal University team and an eleven from Bumkin Island. This team has many fast players including Cawley, a former Colby star, and in its first game was beaten by Exeter by the close score of 7 to 0. An admission of 25 cents will be charged...
There are, it has been roughly estimated, about three thousand doctors graduated yearly from our recognized schools. That is a pitifully small number to alleviate the suffering and heal the wounds of millions of war-beaten men. Our armies can afford no diminution of the far-too-small number of doctors who are now available...