Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first game between the University and Yale, which was played at New Haven on November 21, resulted in the defeat of the Crimson horsemen. But Captain Clark, coach of the University team, expects his charges to make a much more impressive showing against the Yale riders this time. In New Haven they were handicapped by a small field and strange ponies, but tonight the conditions will be reversed, the University will be playing on its home field, which is much larger than the New Haven Armory, and will have the use of its own mounts...
...striking feature of the president's message is his reference to the constitutional rights of negroes. If the President means by this that the federal government should secure for southern negroes the right to vote he is reopening a question which has not been brought before congress since the defeat of the Force bill 25 years ago. A similar measure if pushed today would probably revive a bitter controversy. It remains to be seen whether the president means all that his message implies...
...Fascist," he opened, clearly indicating that he did not speak for the mutilated section of the ex-combatants. The Opposition was astounded. "After ten years of war, Italy wants peace. It does not want the fall of one man to make place for other men nor the defeat of one Party to make way for another Party...
...Perhaps they were drowned by the roar of the river of blood which separates your generation from mine. For you, the fall of Mussolini would represent a mere change of government. For us, it would represent the end of a dream, the dying out of a hope, the defeat of youth and the destruction of the very reason for our existence...
Missouri Valley results were: Nebraska 24, Kansas Aggies 0; Haskell Indians 20, Butler 7; Iowa State 10, Drake 0. Drake's defeat, her first, left the Missouri Valley championship to be decided between Missouri and Nebraska by the Missouri-Kansas game this week...