Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gore Hall's basketball team, with a smashing 37-19 defeat of Smith has kept its position at the top of the Freshman Dormitory League and has run its string of victories to five. L. F. Hagopian '32 and C. A. Parmiter '32, Gore's stars, continued their scoring with six and five field goals, respectively. In Wednesday's other contest McKinlock and Standish battled to keep out of the cellar of the league. McKinlock won, 30-22, largely on the playing of R. H. Simonds...
...Freshman basketball team defeated Andover Academy 45 to 20 yesterday in Hemenway Gymnasium. This avenges an eaarlier defeat suffered at the hands of the schoolboys...
Scoring at the rate of more than a goal a minute, the University polo team defeated the 110th Field Artillery by the score of 32 to 13 1-2 and won first place in the Class A division of the Commonwealth Armory Indoor Polo Tournament with a no defeat record...
...Hoover, casting an anxious eye over the prospective political battleground, beheld Mr. Brown wasting his talents on the Ohio air. He called him to Washington officially as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, unofficially as a campaign manager. Mr. Brown put his candidate in the Ohio presidential primaries, where defeat would have been certain had not Death scratched his rival, Senator Frank B. Willis...
...Laurac was divorced and in the War he died. Helma came to the U. S. to the Metropolitan Opera Company. There critics thought her a little cold but her prestige grew as it had in Europe. Her sole defeat was a trip to Mexico City under none other than Impresario Gonsalvo. She had been tempted by the offer of the highest fee ever paid a woman singer. But she offended the politician-backer, sang badly and had to be hustled out of the city to save her skin. The experience shook her confidence, ruined Gonsalvo. For Gonsalvo she magnanimously provided...