Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interest will center around the Stubbs' sextet who will be attempting to stretch its victory string, started after a defeat at the Big Green's hands just a year ago, to sixteen straight wins. Betting odds still favor the Crimson pucksters, but the home team is given a better than fighting chance to reverse that decision because of their fine showing at the Boston Garden last months when Captain Ford saved the Harvard cause with two markers in the last period...
...possible conflicts in the Far East, Steiger contends that a war between Japan and China is more likely than one between Japan and Russia. The speaker listed two reasons for this: Japan is not certain that she can defeat Russia; and Japan is afraid that Russia will send over an air fleet and destroy her cities...
...river from February until spring. Whether or not Tom Bolles has brought some of his warm Washington weather with him it looks as though that feat might be duplicated. It is significant that in that year's race at New London the Varsity handed Yale a five-lengths defeat...
...reviewed its New Deal program of restoring marsh land for duck breeding grounds and refuges. Minimum requirement, said he, is 7,500,000 acres. The Survey is about halfway to that goal. But, continued the broad-beamed Chief, "there are two small groups among people who hunt who may defeat this program." One group is composed of commercial hunters, usually petty thieves and miscreants. "So long as a section of the American public will pay exorbitant prices for contraband game in restaurants, night clubs and hotels, we will have this problem to deal with...
Graham Cummin reigns among the backstrokers, and should find little difficulty in floating through an undefeated season. Last year, Cummin broke the intercollegiate record, but was able to retain his title for only one week. In the next meet, against Princeton, he suffered his only dual defeat of the season but forced his rival to lower the mark he had set up. This son of Nassau is not competing this winter, which should leave things pretty much Cummin's way. Crosby Keller will be his understudy...