Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson will probably have little trouble in either of the meetings, for Amherst and Dartmouth have never beaten Harvard in formal intercollegiate competition. And the Crimson has good enough players this year to keep that record intact, says Coach Barnaby...
...Stalingrad" is a novel of mood. Instead of a plot, there is only the overpowering atmosphere of snow and gray skies and beaten men--and death. Plievier indulges in lengthy political discourses in the words of his characters and in the third person. His German officers begin, for the first time, to doubt the infallibility of what they have built and operated, and to find in the ruin of the sixth Army and its betrayal by Hitler the first indications that they have devoted their lives to a false cause. It dawns on some of them that...
Next game coming up for the team is one this Friday at Amherst, followed on Saturday by a match with Dartmouth at Hanover. Both these squads have never beaten Harvard in formal league play (the league goes back to the early 'thirties). "But that's what worries me." Coach Barnaby says. "All the teams are-laying for us. Everywhere we play, the other team is out to get Harvard...
...Communists were overrunning China like lava. Mukden and all Manchuria were gone-and 60% of China's best troops had gone with them. In the great rust-red plain between Nanking and Suchow, the last government armies in Central China confronted an enemy that had beaten them before. U.S. military experts had given Nanking "ten days to three weeks...
...Beaten to a Rag. At the end of each year, Q would give one final party. A whole crowd of students and fellows would escort him to the station, and there, with great ceremony, bid him goodbye. Then, "beaten to a rag with this term's work," Q would set out for Cornwall-to a plain house, "indeed, very much like a house a child draws on a slate." There he would write his essays, or work on the new edition of the famed Oxford Book of English Verse, or supervise regattas in the uniform of a yacht club...