Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to make up for their defeat at the hands of Bowdoin Saturday, the University riffle club team tonight will take aim in a New England Intercollegiate Postal League match with Vermont at Memorial Hall...
...members of the anti-Semitic Rumanian Iron Guard killed in Spain in action under the White standard. It seemed to these five experienced diplomats that Carol II, Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Mussolini, Smigly-Rydz of Poland and Salazar of Portugal all want the Spanish war to end in Red defeat, and they were probably right, but in attending the Iron Guard funeral last week they had momentarily forgotten Mme. Lupescu-a dangerous thing to do in Bucharest...
...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...
Making up a little for their defeat by the Crimson in hockey and basketball, Yale athletes outscored Harvard on horseback 13 1/2-5 1/2 Saturday...
Saltonstall, former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and unsuccessful Republican candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, touched humorously on his own defeat last November and explained the Democratic victory on the grounds that the G. O. P. had made the mistake of attempting to appeal to the logic and reason of the voters rather than their emotions...