Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier (defiant): "Make this bill the principal plank of your program at the general election if you choose, and we will defeat you, even though your slogan be 'Let London Walk...
...University minor sports teams were victorious, and two went down to defeat before their opponents on Saturday. The two former were the polo team which defeated Dedham, 6 to 3, and the lacrosse twelve which crushed Dartmouth with a 9 to 2 score. The tennis team was defeated 8 to 1, at the hands of Williams, and the golfers were worsted 7 to 2 by the University of Pennsylvania...
...tennis, a strong University team, slated by dopesters to win from Williams, went down to a crushing defeat before the Purple net men at Williams-town. The winners showed themselves far superior to their visitors the feature match being that in which captain March of Williams defeated J. F. W. Whitbeck '27 the Crimson leader...
...Brookline Country Club links resulted in several hard matches which were won by closes margins Captain E. S. Stimpson '27 lost to Cox, Union's underfeated member one man, but his teammates were all successful, and in the foursomes Stimpson teamed up with Dwight Barnum '27 to defeat Cox and J. Beale...
...offending editors to their faces that when any newspaper adopts the editorial attitude on American foreign policy which Scripps-Howard has pursued, every informed person knows that it has fallen from the high estate which is our common heritage, and becoming no longer worthy of regard, is destined to defeat and failure. No American can profit by selling his own country for foreign favor...