Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the cause of violent recriminations between the Boer and the British population. A dozen emblems have been suggested- only to be fiercely denounced by one side or the other. The Dutch (Boers) would have none of the Union Jack, seeing in that emblem a sign of their defeat by the British; the English-speaking section would no more tolerate the republican flags, unless the Union Jack were an integral part of a new national flag, seeing in their presence a movement designed to set up a republic, thus seceding from the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas charged the Association with responsibility for defeat of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. The bankers denied it and refused Senator Caraway permission to further address the convention...
...Stories. Wm. Leeds, the peddler in Last Night, is not merely a man whom life has defeated: he is a generalization, a symbol, an inclusion of defeat. After a day of selling his pencils to the faces behind back doors, he crawls into a cattle shed near a railroad station, to sleep there tasting the dark murmur and damp smell of cows. "First he had been a bound boy, then a hired man. He had had a room over kitchens. For a summer or two he had tramped it, and slept in groves or in straw piles...
...improvement in the soccer team, even with E. F. Clark '28 and Reid Ryan '28 out with injuries, was shown by the defeat of Williams last week. Captain J. F. Carr '28 has also recovered from the leg, injury which handicapped his play in the Williams game...
...class of 1928 won the class football championship last year, and is the strongest contender for the honor this fall. The Juniors have been defeated once by the Seniors already this fall. If the Juniors win, they will force the Seniors into a tie, assuming that the Seniors win their second game with the Sophomores next week. If both the Juniors and Sophomores defeat the Seniors, the Juniors will win the series...