Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first act was to head for Austin to try to beat a bill, which he had previously supported, to place San Antonio employes under civil service...
Last year the 30-year-old city machine in San Antonio, led by suave, grey Mayor Charles Kennon Quin, got tired of hearing Maury Maverick (who beat Quin for Congress in 1934) tell the country what a civic pesthole his city was. They put up a hard-hitting attorney named Paul Kilday, knocked Maury Maverick out of Congress...
Recovering from his labors with coffee & aspirin, Maury Maverick croaked: "I'm going to be a stuffed shirt. I got beat for Congress for not being...
...winter was at hand. In coal and steel production War-time Germany held up, partly because of the capture of Belgian and French mines and blast furnaces. But the immense capacity of Pittsburgh, made available to the Allies even before the United States' entry into the war, easily beat down the Ruhr and the German State lost its first...
With a superbly fast start, Vince Bailey paced the fifties out to a deek-length lead immediately at a beat of forty. From then on the Crimson crew gradually lengthened the lead until the half-mile mark at a 36, where it settled down to a stroke far lower than its opponents and kept its position to the end of the race...