Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Thompson prophesied that Adolf Hitler would never rule Germany. Herbert Matthews called the Italian defeat at Guadalajara one of the decisive battles of history. Liddell Hart said Ethiopian mobile tactics would probably swamp Mussolini's invaders. Edgar Ansel Mowrer said that two years of the Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines...
...Freshman lacrosse team was crushed 18 to 1 Saturday afternoon by Exeter, in the worst defeat the Yardlings have had this season...
Taking their third successive 5 to 4 defeat, the Crimson Varsity golfers bowed to the Dartmouth links men at Providence yesterday afternoon...
...what promises to be one of the most closely contested of the 21-meet series, Harvard and Dartmouth track teams clash this afternoon in the Stadium. Coach Mikkola's men are out in avenge last year's defeat, the first in history at the hands of the Big Green, and have a slightly better than even chance of doing...
Badly handicapped by the abscense of Doug Anderson, Gordon Halstead, and Captain Phil Hammond, all of when were injured in the Dartmouth game last Saturday the Varsity increase team went down to a 10-5 defeat yesterday afternoon at Durham, N. H., by the Wildcats...