Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deciding factor came in the morning's play. It was the defeat of Charles Greene of Exeter by Noble in the semi-final round, 6-2, 6-4. Had Greene won this match and the final, Andover and Exeter would have been tied...
...Haven, Conn., May 30--The Harvard Freshman baseball team kept its record unspotted by defeat by winning from the Yale Freshmen, 8 to 7, in a game replete with bad baseball...
...Idaho lawyer who might have dropped back into the dusty puddle of state politics after his glorious defeat went on to Washington, to Congress, to the Senate, to a great portion of respect and honor. Clarence Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...
After losing four out of six singles matches at the Philadelphia Country Club on Saturday, the strong Penn tennis team rallied to defeat Harvard in all three doubles and take the match...
...Harvard golf team, recovering from its defeat at the hands of Princeton on May 12, administered an 8 to 1 drubbing to the Dartmouth golfers at Weston on Saturday afternoon. Stewart of Dartmouth prevented a Green washout by downing C. L. Stover...