Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University's uninterrupted reign of four years as champion of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association was definitely broken yesterday when the Newton Centre Club defeated the University racquetmen, 4-1, on the former's courts. Team B likewise suffered a defeat, falling at the small end of a 4-1 score in its match with the Harvard Club in Boston. The Freshman players and team, C, not having a match scheduled for Saturday with any outside teams, played a game on the University courts, in which the first year men were victorious by a score...
This great and rapid conquest was financed in large measure by Soviet Russia, but, after Conqueror Chiang Kai-shek had suffered defeat, political, not military, (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927), he turned against Moscow. Such an about face was not made by Madame Sun Yatsen. She remains Russophile, she is now in Moscow, and she was sorely vexed when the "Nationalist Government" recently broke off its relations with Soviet Russia (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). Therefore, last week, Madame Sun threw upon the side of Soviet Russia the enormous weight of her name and prestige* in China, by cabling as follows from...
...British Labor") and other members of wildly assorted parties to a total of 238. Into the "ayes" lobby filed 205 members, equally assorted. From the gallery looked down in consternation the impotent Bishops. Their three-to-one victory in the Lords had turned to a bitter four-to-five defeat in the Commons. . . . For a moment the vote's shattering impact seemed lost upon 77-year-old Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then great tears gushed from his eyes, sobs issued from his throat. Slowly he was led away by the Right Honorable...
...Schafer: A bill (H. R. 6,098) to disclose interest of and to regulate lobbyists who attempt to procure the passage or defeat of any measure before the Congress of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary...
...players in the game with M. I. T. last week, it was extremely difficult to size up the Crimson outfit. It is a question whether the new men have had enough experience in play with the veterans to give them the necessary co-ordination that will be needed to defeat the B. U. outfit...