Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Dakota, which Franklin Roosevelt carried by a modest margin, other Democratic candidates had a bad time. Governor Tom Berry fell behind Republican Leslie Jensen in his bid for a third term. The State's two Representatives, both Democrats, had neck & neck races, scored one victory, one defeat. Democratic Senator William J. Bulow trailed his opponent. Chandler Gurney, until, two days after election, he found himself safe by a nose...
...days after the Cavaliers received their 65-0 defeat at the hands of Harvard the undergraduate paper at the University of Virginia brought out the Magna Carta of Professional Football reprinted else-where on this page. Coming immediately after Virginia's humiliation by a team whose foremost virtue has always been its emphasis upon amateurism, the editorial appears to be totally lacking in sincerity...
Harvard's victory should have done anything but bring defeatism to the Cavalier team. That very victory should have appeared as the complete vindication of a policy of amateurism rather than its death-knell. More than any other college has Harvard been tempted to take the easiest way out during its past years of defeat. Any success it has now must go down in the ledger to the credit of the belief that football can survive as a sport for the sake of sport...
...Harvard faculty and alumni. By active complaint and deliberate discussion, representatives of the University have acquired a large following who favor repeal of this obnoxious legislation. The concerted action which swept sixty-one oath supporters out of the Massachusetts legislature is simply a local counterpart of the nationwide defeat of the Hearst type of noise maker. Harvard may give herself a pat on the back for having helped to combat this branch of American demagoguery...
...Peabody, Mass., following the high school football team's third defeat, Police Chief William F. Pierce ordered patrolmen to visit each player's home each night to see that he went to bed by 10 o' clock...