Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicaragua. Early practical results of the present U. S. Marine intervention in Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926 et seq.) were the defeat and flight of a Liberal President, and the maintenance in power of a Conservative President. Last week a Liberal victory at the forthcoming Nicaraguan election seemed imminent, because the Conservatives are split into two factions, each claiming to be the "Historic Conservative Party." Therefore General Frank Ross McCoy charged by President Coolidge with the supervision of the Nicaraguan election, ruled that neither Conservative faction would be allowed to present a Presidential Candidate representing "The Historic Conservative Party...
...with sombre intellectual mien, accept the University's tribute to their various degrees of scholastic endeavor. Tomorrow the stage and scenery undergo a metamorphosis, and all eyes shift to the Thames, teeming with color, and focus upon the eight men on whom depend coveted victory or bitter defeat. With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises to the frivolous whirl of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every loyal graduate and undergraduate. Those who prepared to shed a tear...
Senator Johnson's solace in defeat was consent of the Senate to consider the dam again first thing next autumn. A resolution by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada for a quintet of engineers to examine and report on Boulder Dam once more this summer, was also passed. This report will doubtless be decisive...
Third, the effect of this situation was that if War Lord Chang had fought a last engagement at Peking, suffered defeat, and then retired still fighting and chased by the Nationalists toward Manchuria, he would have found his retreat cut off by the Japanese...
...real sportsmanship.' No, all this seems frankly incredible. Heretofore we have naively believed that the protests of the English in 1908 and of other foreign teams in later Olympics against the morals and manners of the American delegation were inspired by nothing more than the chagrin of defeat, but now-now our faith begins to falter...