Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understood at once that Vag has no intent to draw a crude and obvious analogy. Some may reason, since this is a football day, that Vag is inferring that Napoleon was a good soldier who was eventually defeated; and that West Pointers are good soldiers who may meet the same fate today. This logic, however, is too shallow. Football is not war, nor is the stadium a Waterloo battlefield for either team. Columbia has already given the soldiers a taste of defeat; but then Napoleon came back strongly after his Leipzig setback. The Little Corporal once more reigned supreme...
...been for the pressure of the Plan E Committee upon the court, the proposal would probably have been postponed for two years. The circumvention of the legal intricacies which Cambridge politicians raised to defeat the petition was worth the effort, for the idea of a city manager has many real advantages, unrealized by most American communities. Essentially it means the elimination of graft and political favoritism from metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses...
There are no alibis for Saturday's 20-0 defeat at the hands of Cornell. There need be none, for the Harvard team played the kind of a game of which they and their supporters should be proud. The clash was reminiscent of last year's Dartmouth debacle, for the Big Red (in white) and the Crimson were far closer than the score indicates. This has been said before after Harvard defeats, but never with more truth than after last Saturday...
...many visitors to Czechoslovakia have reported one thing, Every Czech, high and low, with whom they talked-and President Eduard Benes gave scores of audiences-declared in substance with passionate conviction: "Even if our allies fail us, no matter if we are left to face overwhelming odds and certain defeat, nevertheless Czechoslovakia will fight rather than yield...
...pounds less of total football manhood, but he is sending out a team which, like all of the Crimson teams, will give their best when the odds are heaviest against them. Not less but more of a chance has Harvard to upset the dope after last Saturday's defeat. They were beaten by a team which Cornell cannot but underrate, even as Harvard underrated them a week...