Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keith Brown may reach great heights in the pole vault as he seeks revenge for a sore defeat from Dubiel at the heptagonals and looks ahead to the coming IC4A games...
Lobbyists sat on the edge of their seats in a ring around the Senate Gallery. Administration leaders on the floor below tried to put on a brave front in the face of expected defeat. The Senate was about to follow the House, to pass a bill for immediate payment of the Bonus...
Then the roll was called on the Patman Bill the ten Senators who had voted to substitute it for the Vinson Bill flopped back to vote against it as it was approved 55-to-33. So Legion Commander Belgrano retired from the gallery in glum defeat. Commander Van Zandt of the VFW left the gallery in triumph and proclaimed a "decisive victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could...
Dartmouth, the present League leader, was stopped for the first time by Yale last Wednesday, 8-7, after running up six straight League victories. Harvard, on the other hand, suffered its only defeat at the hands of Columbia last month, a game which the Crimson avenged last Wednesday by a 17-54 triumph...
...three-way tie for the lead in the House golf league between the Bellboys, Gold Coasters, and Puritans resulted from Lowell's defeat of Adams on the greensward yesterday, and if the three captains agree to a match involving six threesomes, the deadlock will be played off today. A similar method was used two years ago, but if it is not agreed to, the title will be decided by elimination matches...