Word: defeat
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Followed the loss of the water polo title (to Germany), decisive defeat in the six-metre races (by Denmark). The Olympiad ended...
...monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg in which the First Minnesota Volunteers lost 215 of their 262 men. "In all the history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals. . . . It probably saved the Union Army from defeat. We may well stop to consider on this Sabbath day what Power it was that stationed these men at this strategic point on this occasion. . . . We can only infer that it was the same Power which guided the path of the Mayflower . . . Franklin and Washington . . . George Rogers Clark . . . Lincoln and Grant...
...asked his King to accept his resignation. His resignation was without precedent. Heretofore archbishops of Canterbury, ever since Augustine first held that seat (597-605), have quit office only through orthodox murder or natural death. No religia-political pressure caused Dr. Davidson's decision; not even his double defeat by the House of Commons over his efforts to revise the Book of Common Prayer. He continues one of the brightest intellects in the House of Lords.* But he is 80 and the strain of Church of England polemics have strained his once stout physique. York, the Most Reverend Cosmo...
...South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted he would "probably" carry Georgia and Arkansas, and "possibly" Virginia and Texas. They said the border-states of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma would surely be Anti-Smith. They planned mass meetings, advertised for funds, pledged themselves to elect Democratic Congressmen but to defeat the Democratic national ticket. Asked if the Anti-Smith Democrats would accept Republican moneys (see p. 6), Bishop Cannon said: "Certainly. I never look a gift horse in the mouth." They disguised their antipathy for Nominee Smith's Roman Catholicism in a "platform" attacking him only...
After seven sweltering days of conference in Indianapolis, the Policy Committee of the United Mine Workers of America last week voted to accept what was called "Labor's greatest defeat in years." The question was, and had been for some time, whether to relinquish to district vote the authority long exercised by the United Mine Workers' national officers over wage-agreements in the bituminous coal fields...