Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tactics. Despite Senator Brookhart and friends, however, President Hoover's opposition to the Senate bill began to show results. Support of the debenture plan began to crumble. Informal Senate polls predicted its probable defeat. Its advocates schemed how they could transfer it from the farm bill to the tariff bill, explaining that its location there would be more logical. In the tariff bill they thought it would muster more House support, would be harder for the President to veto. Nebraska's Norris drafted an amendment to reduce the bounty on crops over-produced...
...Harvard team has suffered but one defeat this year and that in its first game with Union College. Since then it has wen two games, one over Cornell and the last one ever Springfield...
...Indians have played and lost three hard games. They have suffered defeat at the hands of the Army. Penn State, and University of Pennsylyama Furthermore, the Dartmouth twelve will be handicapped by lack of outdoor practice while the University team has a week's practice period at Sytacuse to its credit during Spring Becess as well as constant practice since its return...
...virtue of the Crimson's record, which is marred only by defeat at the hands of Union College, Harvard is favored to triumph over the Green twelve. Dartmouth has lost to the Army, to Pennsylvania State College, and to Pennsylvania University...
...University of New Hampshire ball team will invade Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock in an attempt to avenge a 5 to 1 defeat suffered at the hands of the Crimson nine last year. Coach Mitchell is planning to change his lineup slightly from that which faced Springfield on Saturday. B. H. Bassett '31 speedy centerfielder will resume his accustomed post after a short enforced layoff. The game will also see the first home appearance of J. D. Dudley in the catcher's role. With the return of these two men to the lineup, the nine should...