Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the U. S. need not buy flowage rights over lands which the river now floods naturally. The face cost of the bill remained $325,000,000 to the U. S. President Coolidge said it would cost $500,000,000 but was prepared to sign it, thus admitting a defeat by the Congress...
Some said?Hooverism came amazingly close to upsetting a powerful local ma-chine ; it was a praiseworthy attempt in the face of almost certain defeat; it was a defeat, not at the hands of Favorite Son Watson alone, but of all other G. O. P. Candidates combined, "The Allies" as they are called, including sly-dog Dawes, Coolidge-anyway and Uninstruction...
Pennsylvania has one of the strongest college aggregations in the country. It defeated Yale with case on May 5 by a score of 7 to 2. The Crimson team will have to defeat either Pennsylvania or Williams and Yale in order to win letters this spring...
Captain B. H. Whitbeek '29 upheld the promise shown in his near-defeat of Julius Seligson of Lehigh last week when he recently retained his place at No. 1 by twice defeating M. T. Hill '30 with convincing margins...
...southpaw slants of John Hensil proved too much for the Harvard baseball team yesterday and Villanova turned back the Crimson forces yesterday afternoon 8 to 8. This defeat, the second suffered by the University nine this spring, was the first shut-out scored against Harvard this season and the second in the past two years...