Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, bellowed at by Alabama's Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin, who mortally hated & feared the "Pope of Rome,"* Catholicism was brought forward as an issue in U. S. life. There can be no doubt that religious intolerance was a large factor in Al Smith's defeat. Since 1928, Pius XI's U. S. priesthood has got in some good licks on anti-Catholic sentiment. So skilfully have they stimulated U. S. reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed. If Jim Farley should run for President...
...author of this how-dy-do was one of the founders of the brash, short-lived Yale Harkness Hoot; at 21 wrote Challenge to Defeat, slapping the face of depression pessimists. In Hannibal Hooker, his first novel, he breezes past all moral and religious stop-signs. He is, in brief, a daring young man, and his agility on literary trapezes is breathtaking. But after his stunts are over, it is not quite clear what all the squirming and leaping were about...
...future is quite conceivable. Either the present Act may expand in scope or it may simply be the wedge for more stringent laws. Obviously, in contrast to such a threat, any considerations of "town-gown" relations are insignificant. Harvard must again employ all its influence and prestige to help defeat a law which might some day destroy its own intellectual freedom...
...Chief" Boston is a favorite over Joseph Bartolf at unlimited, because he has passed even his Navy man without a defeat if for no other reason...
Underdogs again in their second meet of the season, the Freshman Track team pits its strength against a strong Exeter aggregation at 2:30 this afternoon in the Exeter cage. Last Saturday the Yardling tracksters suffered a sharp defeat in their initial contest with Andover; today, according to Coach Bill Neufeld they face Exeter's strongest team in many years. This, combined with heavy inroads of injuries and studies, seems to spell anything but victory for the Crimson Fresh...