Word: default
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the loss by default of two contenders, Dudley and Eliot, the first House swimming meet of the season went off with considerable success last night, yielding victories for Leverett, Winthrop, and Dunster. Earlier in the afternoon the Adams basketball team gained a 44 to 13 win over Dunster and Winthrop boat Dudley...
...Officially "delinquency" means failure to file a return that is due; "default" means filing the return but failing to make payment...
Except for Moore, Democrats held the G.O.P. revolt in check. They squeezed in New Dealish Robert S. Kerr as Governor by 15,000 votes, elected seven of Oklahoma's eight Congressmen. Because Republicans underestimated their own strength, dozens of local offices went to the Democrats by default...
...broadcast from Munich (see p. 36) Hitler virtually confessed that he could not now meet the danger in Africa itself. He all but said that North Africa for the present must go by default to the Allies. The only alternative for him-and it may not be physically possible-will be to strip Europe of large numbers of Nazi troops, equipment and planes, both to reinforce Rommel and to form a new front in French Africa, perhaps to attack Gibraltar through Spain...
Hyde won his quarter-final berth with a victory over Lyman Bullard, 6-1, 7-5, while Moley got a default from Ted Rowse...