Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jones is considered by coaches in New England as one of the most likely candidates for the championship crown of this section. His defeat makes Pool the favorite in the sectional and national tournament...
...informed opinion . . . that Herbert Hoover among Republicans everywhere is the preference of the rank and file. It is and will be our purpose to expose the selfish character of certain favorite-son and other insincere movements calculated to defeat the will of the people...
Louisiana elections are won and lost in the newspapers. When Candidate Wilson ran strongly last week, his votes feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
Since the notable game in 1916 when E. W. Mahan '16 repulsed without a score a Braves aggregation that subsequently won the World Series, Harvard has had only one contest with the Boston professionals and that was last spring's defeat...
...second time this year the Freshman basketball team met defeat, when it emerged from the game with St. John's Academy in the Freshman Gyminium Saturday at the small end of a 31 to 23 score. The quintet from Danvers was leading the first-year players 17 to 5 at the end of the first half...