Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate term of Hugo LaFayette Black presumably meant a seven-year job because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom Heflin, weary of the smaller jobs he had been given since his defeat in 1930, entered the race this autumn against Chairman J. Lister Hill of the House Military Affairs Committee...
...surgeons to operate successfully on the human heart and a pupil of England's Lord Lister for whom his eldest son was named. When Governor Graves this week appointed him to replace his wife, Senatress Dixie, the New Deal's leaders in Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall to one of the stanchest foes that TVA has in the House, Kentucky's Democratic Andrew Jackson...
Munger is young, only 28 years, having graduated from Penn in '38. In college he was a football star for three years, and his record as Freshman football coach is very successful, for his loss to the Cornell Freshman this fall has been his only defeat...
...reached its peak, and should they find themselves against the Tigers, they ought to win by a comfortable margin. If they continue to display the brand of hockey that has characterized their play so far this season, they are in for a busy evening, although a defeat would definitely be considered an upset...
Other racquet victors were Hendrik De Kruif and Francis H. Appleton both of whom won their matches by a 3-1 score. Kim Canavarro of the Crimson outfit lost to H. Ditmars while George B. Blake met defeat at the hands of R. Wakeman...