Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan. Senator Hatch, who postponed private engagements in order to hear Dean Smith out, announced after the hearing that he was ready to go whole hog for the Smith plan. Senator Logan surrendered before the hearing ended. Raising a last objection that rich and powerful conservatives might defeat the Smith amendment, he grinned with relief when the Dean declared: "Those same people could only carry two States in the last election, Senator. We beat them then, and I think we can beat them easily...
...word that no Italian likes to hear is "Caporetto," the name of the Alpine village where in 1917 the Italian army broke and ran in the most ignominious rout of the War. Italians heard that word many times last week as fact after fact emerged to show that the defeat of the Italian legions was overwhelming, catastrophic, perhaps un piccolo Caporetto ("a little Caporetto"). Air fighters on both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl...
...wiping out of Italy's mechanized divisions at Guadalajara is forcing upon Franco consideration of the question whether insurgent strategy in whole or in part must be revised. Il Duce's legionnaires were chewed up worse than is gen erally known. Their defeat resulted in the failure of the Easter Offensive which aimed at closing the bottleneck exit from Madrid...
...every one of the infinite variety of organizations that submerged their differences and pooled their resources in the common cause of repealing the Teachers' Oath Law, Governor Hurley's veto comes as a bitter disappointment. But the appalling thing about the defeat is not so much the Governor's action, which might have been expected, but the message which he sent back to the General Court along with the unsigned repeal. It is appalling as a revelation of the state of mind of the governor of the Commonwealth...
Monday night, a team of all-star first year men, challenged by their belligerent elders, inflicted a crushing defeat on the Third Year team by a score of 55 to 53. Next Tuesday the two sextets will meet again in a non-title play-off match...