Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow the netmen will take on M.I.T. and Princeton is carded for a Saturday tilt. Last year the Tigermen pinned an overwhelming defeat on the Crimson...
...LaGuardia won the berth in City Hall by a small plurality, but not by a majority decision. It seems perfectly plain, then, that, despite his gain in popularity during his term, for the Republicans to throw their hundred thousand odd votes to another candidate might spell the Mayor's defeat...
George Lowman, also undefeated until yesterday, won the second set of his match with Hardie. Closest encounter was that in which Alvah Sulloway went down to a 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 defeat before Miami's Gillespie...
...attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger. Best shot: a tough gangster named Fingers (Ward Bond) vibrating helplessly from the shocks of a miniature electric chair which Inventor Mallory concocts on the spur of the moment...
...smashing defeat of the Tiger oarsmen by a rejuvenated Harvard shell on Lake Carnegie last Saturday strikes a high point in the comeback of Crimson athletics which has been developing over the current year. With a football team that turned the tables on the predictions of newspaper sages the country over, a court squad that made good its claim to major-sport ranking, and a swimming team that left the prize Bulldogs waterlogged and weary for the first time in thirteen years, the college has burst forth with another top-flight sport...