Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Return in Defeat," Henry W. Grady; Thomas Francis Kelly...
...traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie of calling 75,000 men for three months to fight a war which took two and a half million men four years, but Washington, who "demanded for the future of this Democracy that her citizens...
Saratoga IV, built by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in 1891, christened New York, was flagship of Rear Admiral Sampson in the defeat...
...Zaghlul's accession to power would be a return to the anarchy and indiscipline from which the Ziwar Cabinet has lately steadily been effectinga rescue. The inevitable result of a return of the Zaghlulist régime would be the defeat of all the hopes of Egyptian independence and a resumption of British control. We are determined at any cost to prevent this eventuality...
Cumings' performance in the cage during the past season was one of the bright features in a season marred only by a 1 to 0 defeat at the hands of the Yale skaters in the rubber game of the H-Y series. In this contest, the lone goal came after 87 minutes of strenuous play, during which Cumings stemmed a Blue rush time and again with brilliant stops. Only the remarkable play of Captain Jenkins prevented Cumings being acclaimed the "best" of the college goalies, and with another year of competition, he should succeed to the laurels heaped upon...