Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When white-haired Bishop William Newman Ainsworth of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South looked about him in Macon, Ga. last month, he was displeased. Throughout the South, Methodists were engaged in an eleventh-hour battle to defeat a project dear to Bishop Ainsworth's heart-reunion of 8,000,000 U. S. Methodists into one great church. In less than three years, Northern Methodists, Methodist Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing...
...Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head, the governor had taken more than he could stand-he became a cool, impersonal, relentless political strategist, controlling the Democratic Party convention in 1896, maneuvering so skillfully that his enemies were thrown into panic. And after Bryan's defeat, when the Populists were exhausted and demoralized, he was almost the only leader who kept going, launching another attack on monopoly, vested interests and Wall Street as if unaware that his side had been licked. When he died in 1902, newspapers that had attacked him savagely began grudgingly giving...
Three walks in the seventh inning coupled with two hits for four runs off the pitching of Slim Curtiss sent the Crimson nine down to a 5-4 defeat at the hands of St. Johns Saturday afternoon in a flawlessly played game at Soldiers Field...
Suffering its second defeat of the season, the Harvard tennis team bowed before a strong Tiger aggregation at Princeton last Saturday 7-2. Here, just as against North Carolina, Dave Burt at the number two position was the only Crimson player to win his singles match. He defeated Winslow 6-3, 6-2 and then paired with Langdon Gilkey in doubles to give Harvard its second point...
Still smarting from the heart-breaker North Carolina administered in the form of a 5 to 4 defeat, Coach Harry Cowles' tennis players left yesterday to meet Princeton in Tigertown. Hauck, Burt, Lowman, Gilkey, Captain Sulloway, and Palfrey will probably play, although the order of the last three and the doubles pairings is undecided...