Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Defeat...
...Italians suffered no defeat, even at Guadalajara, there they retreated before greatly superior force and armaments, after lost about half their effectives, to a better position and there they stop the Reds and are still stopped. Neither the Germans destroyed Guernica, it was Bolshevists and British propaganda...
Sweeping the first five singles, the Freshmen Tennis Team defeated Yale 7 to 2 at Divinity Courts Saturday afternoon to complete a season marred only by a close defeat at the hands of the Harvard Graduates. The only victories of the Blue Yearlings were in the number six singles and the number three doubles...
...this point. I myself am a conservative. I am a member in good standing of the River Forest (Illinois) Regular Republican Club. I am acting on this committee because I believe that Fascism is the greatest menace to our liberties, and to world peace, today. I believe that the defeat of Franco will be a signal check on Fascism...
...President's Court Plan. Son-Secretary James Roosevelt, who sped South last week to join his father at Fort Worth, and Postmaster General Farley, who boarded the Presidential special at Indianapolis, reportedly were both dispatched by Senate leaders to tell the President that his Plan seemed headed for defeat, to beg him to accept a compromise. Polls continued to show the Senate so evenly split that forecasters were suggesting that Vice President Garner might have to break a tie. And many a loyal Administrationist feared that though the President might still succeed in ramming his Plan through intact...