Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy the situation was reversed and the Mitchelmen blow a four run first frame lead to lose 12-10 in seven innings. Weak pitching combined with unusually loose playing afield brought Harvard to defeat...
With the Virginia game washed out, the squad traveled to Georgetown where another defeat was tacked on them, 16-15 in a ten inning game played in a steady drizzle and ankle-deep mud. Georgetown scored five runs in the final frame to salt away the encounter...
Winning two matches and losing one, the Crimson netmen enjoyed a fairly successful spring trip. On April 6 the team met defeat at the hands of the University of North Carolina, 8-1, but came back to tumble Duke, 8-1, and Navy, 7-2, on April 7 and 10 respectively...
...withdrawn to seclusion on his farm, where it is Il Duce's habit to make grave decisions, would now have to admit that Dictator Stalin's agents are getting together the better Spanish war machine. Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed...
...fails to recognize gaunt-faced Schoolmistress Throssel as the girl whom he once compared, in a nice turn of rhetoric, to a garden, she creates a new identity for herself-that of Livvy, her imaginary niece. Artifice having restored the necessary ringlets, dashing Valentine conspires to his own defeat. After succumbing to her petticoat ambush, he saves the reputation of Miss Throssel by sending home the coquettish Livvy in the form of a bolster in shawl and bonnet, under the scandal-hungry eyes of all Quality Street...