Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialist and become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles to exercise their control in the defeat of the hydra-headed monsters of distracting niaterialism and ultimate inefficiency...
Perry is a distinguished American name. Oliver Hazard Perry made American history with his famous phrase, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," after his defeat of the British squadron on Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. His distinguished brother performed an even greater act when on July 7, 1853, Matthew Calbraith Perry entered in his flagship, the Mississippi, Kurihama in the Bay of Yeddo in Japan, opening that great nation to western com merce...
...University wrestling team went down to defeat before the Columbia mat-men by the score of 17 to 10 in their meet in New York Saturday night, while the 1931 grapplers were overwhelming the first-year Tufts team at Medford by the score...
Harvard's mallet-wielders opened their season on the Boston Indoor Polo League Saturday night with an overwhelming defeat of the 101st Field Artillery by the score of 13 1-2 to 1-2. F. A. Clark '29 featured by scoring ten goals while R. B. Burnett ocC. and J. P. Cotton '29 each collected three tallies. The Artillery players got only one goal, scored by Needham. The final count, however, does not show the great lead which the Crimson team amassed, because of the point handicap and larger number of penalties given the University players...
...fast and furious contest played on the Madison Square Garden rink Saturday night the University hockey team went down to its first defeat of the season before its second Canadian rival, McGill University, by a score of 3-1. The Montreal sextet furnished the Crimson skaters greater competition than the Toronto team did last week, snatching victory from the University in the last period which the two teams entered tied at one goal all. Captain J. P. Chase '28 scored Harvard's lone tally in the second period on a direct center shot...