Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Healey has been saved for this afternoon's contest because the battle for the League championship is very close, and a single defeat received by the Stahlmen would throw the race wide open. Healey's pitching rival will be a rapidly improving Quaker Sophomore, Tony Caputo...
Coach Johnny Witherspoon's Yardling lacrosse team went down to a 8 to 2 defeat yesterday afternoon at the hands of the strong New Hampshire University ten. The match was played on the field behind the Business School. Although the Crimson outfit lost, the stickwork was the best of the year...
...Yardling tennis team was able to salvage but two of the six singles matches and was blanked in the three doubles encounters yesterday afternoon against Exeter, going down in a 7 to 2 defeat. Individual Crimson winners were Russ Ellis and George Snow...
...policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention in behalf of investments is either acceptable or unnecessary; and it would be highly unfortunate if short-sighted opposition from the representatives of special interest groups in Washington were allowed to defeat even a portion of such a constructive program...
Sitting on the bench in Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Gehrig (known as Buster to his teammates) blubbered as he watched Babe Dahlgren take over his old stamping ground at first base, then silently watched his buddies hand the Tigers their worst defeat (22-10-2) in 27 years.* He graciously shook hands with young Dahlgren after the game, but the only Yankee who dared try to console him was Pitcher Lefty Gomez. "Hell, Lou." said Lefty, "it took 15 years to get you out of the game; sometimes I'm out in 15 minutes." In the grandstand, viewing...