Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently as 1821 Greece was a servile Turkish province. It was largely with Russian backing that a few Greek Christians won freedom for the barren lower tip of the Greek peninsula. For the rest of the 19th Century the Greeks acquired a shameful record of defeat in battle. They acquired more territory only through the benevolence of the Great Powers, chiefly Britain. Then green currants from the Ionian Islands were the main economic support of the dismal little nation...
...Russia's last ruling Romanov had not overreached himself by building a railway clear across Manchuria and down to Port Arthur, thus provoking the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, he might conceivably be on his throne today. From the shame of their defeat by yellow men, Russia's Imperial Government never entirely recovered but they did always manage to hold the steel ribbons into furthest Asia which they had built, the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week, to the shame of Soviet Russia, her rights over the C. E. R. were sold, or rather yielded to Manchukuo by Joseph Stalin...
With A. Townsend Winmill '37, and Thomas J. Davis '35 scoring the sole point for the Crimson, the Eli team, riding hard and skillfully, indicted upon the Crimson trio their second defeat of the season, thus blasting their hopes of reaching the National finals...
...tuck battle for the New England Junior 200-yard free style relay title that left the spectators in doubt as to who had won, the crack Freshman relay team met defeat by a small fraction of a second last night at the heads of the Greenwood Memorial Swimming Club at the Brookline Public Baths...
Rollins College proved an easy prey is the Varsity fencers yesterday, as the Crimson forces triumphed, 14-3. Coach Rene Perey's blade-wielders enter the clash against Yale Saturday with a defeat from Navy alone...