Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smarting under the defeat of Marathon, Persia's great Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats in the summer of 480 B. c., and marched through Thessaly. Herodotus recorded that he had 1,800,000 men; modern historians say about 180,000. Leonidas, king of Sparta, met him with only 7,000 men at Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf. Hearing that a big detachment of Persians had found a way around the pass, Leonidas sent 5,000 soldiers to head them...
Publisher Gannett, a confirmed anti-New Dealer who has also urged doctors to defeat the bill, got no enthusiastic response from the dentists. A few hours later, Dr. Arthur Hastings Merritt, president-elect of the American Dental Association, came out guardedly for the Wagner Bill, was roundly applauded by his dental audience. Although he wanted administration of dental care kept in the hands of dentists, and although he did not advocate free treatment for the well-to-do, Dr. Merritt came out for support of "some form of health insurance-compulsory, voluntary, or both-by a payroll tax to which...
...singles defeats in ten matches were too much for a fighting Crimson tennis team to overcome in the doubles contests, and they went down to a heartbreaking 8 to 7 defeat in New Haven on Saturday afternoon...
...ladders, or a shattered mirror that jinxed the Crimson track forces at New Haven Saturday, or whether Jaakko's operatives were just having an off day will never be known. But in the most brilliantly contested Heptagonal meet since its inception five years ago, favored Harvard went down to defeat to Cornell by a slim half point...
...improved Varsity tennis squad matches shots with the Elis at New Haven tomorrow afternoon in a ten man affair. The Barnabymen rate as slight favorites to defeat the Blue netmen on their own courts...