Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...march meets resistance, it shall be broken immediately and with every means. ..." A third manifesto announced the new triumph to the German people. They showed no emotion. Herr Hitler has never let them think for a minute that any of his adventures have the smallest chance of meeting defeat...
...administration of Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor, George Howard Earle III, went down to defeat last November in a thick smoke of graft charges which hung like a pall over the election. Last week the grand jury of Dauphin County (Harrisburg), which had been peering into the smoke for three months, turned in a fire alarm...
Trailing Army and Navy, the fencing team nevertheless came out ahead of Yale and Princeton in the Annual Pentagonal Meet at Annapolis March 4. The Varsity's only defeat this year was at the hands of Seton Hall by the narrow margin...
Jumping into the lead in the final minute of play on a basket by Hal Lubchansky, the Harvard Jayvee basketball team concluded a fairly successful season by handing a 43 to 41 defeat to the Yale Junior Varsity quintet in a closely contested game in New Haven Saturday night...
...feature matches of the entire encounter was Bill Daughaday's defeat of Bob Clark, Yale sixty-fiver, who had previously beaten him. Daughaday dug in from the first and nearly pinned his man several times...