Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burnside, McClellan's successor, stupidly massed an attack on Fredericksburg and was decisively beaten. At Chancellorsville, "esteemed among foreign critics the most brilliant action of the century," Lee, outmanoeuvered for once, literally led his men, who worshipped him, to defeat a force twice their size. But his final stab failed when a subordinate erred at Gettysburg...
...Charles E. Hughes is the man who can defeat Al Smith in New York State and be triumphantly elected [U. S. President...
...Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against "the power trust...
...addition to these achievements, you have signalized in fitting manner the defeat of the proposal to give the Student Council authority to enforce good manners upon you; stolen a march on the Lampoon; and, if the last few, numbers of the Crime have received proper circulation. You have probably demonstrated to all the world that the day is past when Harvard men were gentlemen. With all due applause. Wendell F. Fogg...
Senator Robinson of Indiana, Republican, not wishing to be left out of the wordfest, said that Mr. Sinclair had also contributed to the campaign fund of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, in 1920. In that campaign, Governor Smith met his only popular defeat at the hands of Nathan L. Miller, who was later an attorney for Sinclair-partner Harry M. Blackmer...