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Word: defaults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Freshman grapplers lost to Exeter Saturday in the Indoor Athletic Building 14-13 in a close match. One hundred and thirty-six pound Ed Rothman of the Yardlings gained the only five point decision of the day when his opponent threw out his arm and was forced to default. Gus Hemenway and Doug Barr won for the Crimson while heavyweight Dick Albion was awarded a draw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS SHUT OUT BY PENN 34-0; DEFEAT COLUMBIA 19-15 | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

...Kirkland natators, by winning a match from Lowell House by default yesterday, capped a successful season of seven wins and no losses to take the Intramural swimming crown. The Dudley Ramblers also defaulted to Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEACON NATATORS TAKE SWIM TITLE | 2/13/1942 | See Source »

With only four men showing up, Eliot was forced to default to Dudley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Lowell Lead Houses in Basketball | 1/8/1942 | See Source »

...professional tennist; defeating Don Budge, onetime nonpareil; 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; before a crowd of 11,000; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs, also making his professional debut, won by default from Fred Perry, 1941 pro champion, when Perry sprawled headlong on the hard floor, injured a nerve in his right forearm. To pinch-hit for Perry for at least a week, Promoter Alexis Thompson got Gene Mako, onetime U.S. doubles champion (with Budge), to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...dispatches from Chungking and in the deep radio voice of a worn, heavy man named Carroll Alcott. The dispatches indicated that Jap broadcasts from scores of stations in Japan and occupied China were glutting the Asiatic air with "news" in Chinese, Burmese, Malayan and other tongues; that in default of good Allied counter-propaganda the "news" was taking effect. Carroll Alcott, who surely ought to know, had been warning about this for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio and Asia | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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