Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although in defeat, Coach Fred Mitchell's revamped lineup showed more spark than in recent games. Resting in third place in the League, the Crimson must win two games from both Dartmouth and Yale in order to capture the championship...
Laying off until Thursday, the great Harvard sprint crew that met defeat at the hands of an even greater Navy outfit will begin its drive for New London and Yale late in the week...
...Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with a conspiracy to overthrow Communism by helping Germany and Japan defeat Russia...
...previous civil wars. On the hillsides northwest of the city are some of the richest coal and iron mines in Spain. If Italy and Germany could get access to these for their rearmament program, their entire investment in the Spanish war might be justified and the galling defeat at Brihuega might be forgotten. If the Basques could stem the drive against their capital it would be a victory over Fascism that should impress the whole world...
...jury finds that the late Viscount Astor did not set up the trust fund to defeat expected estate taxes, as the U. S. claims he did, but merely to escape feared Wartime British capital confiscations, the present Viscount Astor and Major John Jacob Astor, heirs, may recover $10,825,721 in estate taxes collected by the U. S. Government in 1922, plus interest raising the sum to over...