Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago the titular head of the Republican Party, Herbert Hoover, not daring to risk defeat in his home state, but bent on having at least a strong voice in the convention, rallied a few potent cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam...
Penn has carried off the Adams Cup twice in the three years since it was given, and the record of the Quaker boat this year gives every indication that they stand a good chance of making it three out of four. Navy, since its initial defeat by Columbia, has developed rapidly and last week defeated the Tiger eight which trimmed the Harvard outfit the week before Columbia took...
...Ethiopian Emperor had fled, that Addis Ababa was a shambles of wild disorder, that only the speedy arrival of Italian troops would save the lives of British subjects, he realized that he had steered British Foreign Policy onto the rocks. To his constituents in Leamington, he gloomily admitted defeat...
...must seek everywhere for a balance in our teaching and our work. . . . Often we defeat ourselves not by saying a thing, but by saying it too much! Ere long we create a feverish audience that is utterly wearied of the sounding of one string upon the harp of God! . . ." At this plea for moderation, the Methodist delegates laughed and applauded. They also applauded a resounding denunciation of "the forces of inebriety" and a reference to the projected reunion of North- ern, Southern and Protestant Methodist churches (TIME, Aug. 26). This the Columbus Conference made its first order of business. Despite...
Submerged under a deluge of six hits and six runs in the third inning, the Junior Varsity nine went down to defeat before Dean Academy 11.1 at Franklin on Saturday...