Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grueling campaign, did his speeches. Before the battle was over, he was out on his feet. It was then that he complained of Dewey's expenditures. The Stassen organization itself spent close to $100,000. Then Stassen charged that Dewey and Robert Taft were in a conspiracy to beat him. Said Dewey: "Desperate, irresponsible, eleventh-hour tactics." That was what they were. Stassen swung but he missed...
Number six man on this year's squad, Bullard was especially hard to beat in doubles play, relying on a variety of shots from sharp angles...
This leaves exactly four men to uphold Crimson prestige in the 72nd annual, 47-college championships: Sam Felton and John Thorndike in the 16-pound and polevaulters Owen Torrey and Bill Lawrence. Felton, the hammer favorite, thinks he'll have to throw about 185 feet to beat Jim Burnham of Dartmouth and Maine's Marsanskis. Final exams have prevented him from getting into shape, though. His teammate, Thorndike, may take fourth or fifth. Felton may also place in the discus...
Unbeaten Cornell still looms as Harvard's biggest contender for National laurels here. The Big Red took Yale, Penn, Princeton, and assorted other Eastern potentates to the cleaners last Saturday, thereby entrenching itself more firmly as the crew to beat. The Crimson's next biggest worry is Washington, an all-veteran boat that gave Harvard a run for its money in Seattle last year, and which recently established itself over California as western champion...
...tennis fans, but this time he had the gallery-what there was of it-almost on his side. And he had never yet lost a match in Madison Square Garden. He began the tour there five months ago (when 15,114 braved "the big snow" to watch him beat Big Jake Kramer). But last week the score in matches was a lopsided 59 to 19 against...