Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Continually dogged by ill-luck, the Harvard Freshman basketball team went down to another defeat last night in the curtain raiser of the evening's festivities, falling before Dean Academy by the score...
Bowing to a slightly superior team of M.I.T. marksmen, the Harvard Rifle Club went down to a 1341-1257 defeat last night in the Tech Rifle Range. The encounter consisted of a three-position match in which the ten men on each team hit and missed the target from prone, kneeling, and standing positions...
When other amendments were proposed from the floor, Congressman O'Connor took the gavel from Speaker Byrns's trembling hand, declared some of them out of order, let his colleagues defeat the rest with roars of "No." Then 329 Representatives gave the President his $4,000,000,000 "without strings." Of the 78 Representatives who voted "No" ten were Democrats including "Goober" Cox and four other Georgians, "Father-of-his-Country" Smith and two other Virginians...
From the welter of misinformation and popular ignorance that surround the recent Senatorial defeat of the Resolution to join the World Court, certain facts stand out with ironical clarity. It is important to realize that the Resolution was defeated primarily because of the astonishingly effective propaganda aroused over the short space of one week-end by those two staunch protectors of one hundred per cent Americanism, Father Coughlin and the Hearst papers. "Joining the court," said the former, "to maintain peace strongly stinks of diplomatic deceit." He was aided no end by the latters' publishing the pictures of Great American...
Whether or no United States membership in the League is intrinsically good or evil, is beside the point, a matter of personal opinion. One of the most disappointing aspects of the defeat of the recent Resolution is the lack of articulate opinion in favor of the Court, the pitifully loose organization of the Administration's forces in the Senate. Most significant of all, the President failed to take a strong stand on the issue. He had been informed the time was ripe for railroading the Resolutions, quietly through; the Senate; while considerable blame must be attached to the sources...