Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voters passed judgment with respect to sit-down strikes, court-packing, politics-in-relief. They implied their impatience with the delay of Recovery, with executive experimentation, with continued deficit financing. Chastised most emphatically by the general defeat of zealous New Dealers was the end-justifies-the-means attitude expressed by Harry Hopkins when he said, in an excited private argument with friends at the Empire City race track in October: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect...
...Defeating Harvard, Yale and Princeton in, one season is something that no previous Dartmouth team has ever done. Victor over all other opponents as well, the boys from the Hanover hills boasted a string of 22 games without defeat when they met Cornell, their most formidable opponent of the year, last week. But against Cornell's stonewall line, Dartmouth met its Waterloo. In one of the most exciting games of the week, a great Cornell team reminiscent of the days of George Pfann and Eddie Kaw, bottled up the famed Dartmouth backfield trio of MacLeod, Hutchinson and Howe, handed...
...famed undefeated streaks snapped at 22 this season, a far less publicized string has been spun by Baltimore's Morgan College, No. 1 Negro football team of the U. S. In crushing Hampton Institute, 19-to-6, last week, Morgan registered its 54th consecutive game (seven years) without defeat...
...sight of a score of trophy-seekers heaving on the end of a hawser tied to the cross-bar reminded sportswriters of the recent attack on Princeton steel uprights. The determined Bulldogs refused to admit defeat; they produced a block and tackle which succeeded in at least leaving the impression that a frightfully strong wind had passed that...
...excited throng. Like-wise, as Harvard took up the new games appearing in the Victorian period, Yale was out of envy forced to follow, and each time unsuccessfully. In their first baseball game, 1868, Harvard beat Yale 25-17. In 1875 one hundred and fifty students saw the Crimson defeat the Blue in their first football match...