Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This week the New York Times solemnly warned President Roosevelt that October crowds do not necessarily ripen into November votes, recalled the sad cases of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, both of whom drew record crowds for their periods, only to go down in defeat...
Working for the Federal Government, Artist Kroll has spent the entire year on two enormous lunettes representing the Defeat and Triumph of Justice for the Attorney General's new conference room.* They are not yet finished, for Artist Kroll takes his commission seriously, has found mural painting more difficult than he expected. In July and August he went on vacation to his favorite Folly Cove, Cape Ann, Mass., where he has summered since 1930. He set up an easel in the back garden, painted the only canvas he has had time for since starting work on the Department...
With the exception of the Tercentenary, nothing has been watched by Harvard this season with greater interest than the performance of the football team. The thunderclap of last Saturday's defeat at the hands of an unusually skilled West Point team is viewed by the undergraduate body as a mere setback which should not cast the bar sinister across the rest of the season...
...Junior Varsity soccer team rallied yesterday before a crowd of 250 to defeat Fitchburg State Teachers...
Nobody seems to have much luck in uncovering the details of Gruenewald's life. Readers of Professor Burkhard's newest and most thorough study of the artist will find that he too has to admit defeat on this issue. But the author assembles and weighs wisely whatever evidence has been unearthed concerning the painter of the Isenheim Alter; shows that his name was not actually Gruenewald but Gothart, that he studied and lived in the Rhine-Main region of Franconia, that he was a court painter for two archbishops of Mainz; that he feld some sympathy with Luther, but remained...