Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tufts has numbered Lafayette and Bowdoin among its victims. It defeated Boston University 13 to 7, and has won from Bates and Wesleyan. Its only notable defeat has been at the hands of the Blue team, which won 11 to 2, pounding Adams out of the box with six runs in the third...
...Schwimmer, rendered cynical by her defeat, remarked: "If I had invented a new gun or poison gas I would have been so welcome...
...pointed at the ends so that he would not be stood on his head. His purpose: To "crash" the Pathe studios, play jack-in-the-box when the case was opened, dance, get a job. Result: Discovered in Culver City, Cal., he was held "on charges of conspiracy to defeat and evade the interstate commerce laws...
...Lloyd George won't beat us?Ramsay won't defeat us?but Apathy might!" was the slogan of a Conservative poster widely displayed through Britain's general elections campaign (TIME, May 27). Last week, as the campaign closed, the word Apathy was repeated again and again by political writers...
Carnegie Cup. Gleefully tugging against the elastic water of Lake Cayuga last week, Yale's crew beat Cornell in the Carnegie Cup race-the first Cornell defeat of the season. Throughout the race it rained. Princeton, also competing, finished last. Where other crews use a long stroke, Princeton crews use a short, choppy stroke which Coach Chuck Logg learned at the University of Washington. Last week, Coach Chuck said he would not yet chuck his system...