Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Determined to Die." General Sandino retired into hiding after his defeat, but soon sent out a message of defiance: "Whoever believes we are downcast by these heavy casualties, misjudges my army, for today we are more impatient than ever to seek out the traitors of our country, determined to die if we cannot secure liberty...
...founded the American League of professional baseball clubs. He was the dominating factor in the control of organized baseball from 1900 to 1927. Last week he-President Byron Bancroft Johnson of the American League-turned in an obviously dictated resignation to close ingloriously a notable career. His defeat left Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who occupies in baseball a position analagous to that of Will H. Hays in the cinema industry) unchallenged as baseball's dictator. Ever after Commissioner Landis' appointment (in 1920, following bribery in the World's Series of 1919) there was rivalry, warfare between...
Three days before, Mr. Tilden had watched Henri Cochet (France) defeat Francis Hunter (U. S.) in the men's singles by 3-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. "Precious few in the tennis world," said Tilden, "could have beaten Cochet today. ... It was a glorious defeat for Frank...
...Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat in the Heights Casino indoor tournament in Brooklyn. "For an old banker," Mr. Mathey thinks this highly commendable. One other trustee, Frederick P. Scott, 1900, was elected to the Board from the Sixth Region (Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming...
...long and magnificent history our country every time it has been victorious has spontaneously offered the hand of friendship to the conquered. But there has always been one condition, and that was that the vanquished should not seek to contest the victory proclaimed. . . . "If immediately after her defeat Germany had openly disavowed the Government and military caste which led her into the war ... if she had not contested against all evidence the crushing responsibilities of the imperial policy, it would never have entered anyone's mind to associate the German people with their former regime and attribute...