Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden Defeat Not Indicative...
...above all is the need for definite and uncompromising action, and should the Yale plan of making the sport a "major with qualifications" be proposed, it is to be hoped that you will see through the fallacies of what might seem an easy way out and soundly defeat it. Last year when Harvard gave Yale its first defeat in thirteen years, it was the seconds and thirds that swung the balance for the Crimson. But under the Yale plan, only the outstanding stars could get letters, and team spirit and morale would tend to be destroyed...
...spite of the brilliant defeat of Intercollegiate title holder Ross Schaffer by Captain Johnnie Harkness, a revitalized Varsity wrestling squad dropped a 17-11 decision to Penn State on the victor's mats Monday...
...within German boundaries, the rare and fearless publishers of anti-Nazi sheets are soon traced, not often heard from again. Cleverest ruse to defeat the omnipresent police has been to plug the rear end of a van with furniture, set up a print shop between that tier and the driver's seat, travel brazenly from, town to town turning out anti-Nazi propaganda. One such traveling paper, The Wanderer, was discovered last summer when it stuck in the mud, summoned another truck for succor...
...Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek apparently does not expect to defeat the Japanese forces by direct attacks but hopes that (1 they will soon conquer all the land they want and then cease righting, 2 other foreign nations will step in to check the invasion, 3 the League of Nations will be sufficiently effective in taking action that will force Japan to withdraw, 4 the United States will come to his aid because of the sinking of the Panay, 5 in time Japan will defeat herself through lack of resources...