Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the delegates of the All-India Congress Committee met for the annual elections. Unexpectedly they turned thumbs down on Leader Gandhi's man, re-elected Leftist Bose, by a vote of 1,575-to-1,376. Saint Gandhi took his defeat hard. He charged fraud, claimed the Congress was fast becoming a "corrupt organization" and intimated that his supporters might bolt the Congress organization. The Mahatma himself is not a dues-paying member of Congress. To President Bose his re-election was simply a victory for anti-federation...
During the examination period, action along the E. I. L. front was somewhat abated, but several games were played. Yale was shoved further into the league's cellar as a result of a defeat at the hands of the Big Red of Cornell. But more important than this game was the Yale-Dartmouth clash at Hanover in which an inspired band of Elis made things exceedingly not for the favored Big Green, and were only nosed out 34 to 32 by Moose Dudis' last-minute basket...
...Quadrangular League standing the Hoddermen are tied for first place with Dartmouth, each squad with one win in as many games. Princeton is in third place with one win and one defeat while Yale is holding down the cellar post with no League victories in two starts...
...Newport Y.M.C.A. quintet proved to be a tougher nut to crack than it looked, and Coach Johnny Wood's charges went down to a 47 to 33 defeat before the long-range sniping of the visitors...
...Crimson Freshmen suffered their only defeat of the year at the hands of the strong Boston University five before Christmas vacation. The game tonight is the last scheduled home game for the Stahleymen until the first week in March. They will journey successively to South Byfield against Dummer, to Andover against Andover, to Marion against Tabor, and to Hanover against Dartmouth...