Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following night the Stubbsmen suffered their second defeat of the season at the hands of the St. Nicks to the tune...
After this defeat Stubbs effected a big shakeup which resulted in a 6-3 victory the following night over the Manhattan Arrows...
...aftermath of the sinking of the gunboat Panay kept news of the business slump off front pages, even blanketed the defeat of the Wages and Hours Bill (see p. p). If the latter was not inconvenient so far as it reassured business, both kinds of news were nonetheless damaging to Administration prestige...
...that next week, when the newly adopted Irish Free State Constitution (TIME, July 12 et ante) goes into effect, His Majesty King George VI will have been completely erased from any constitutional status or even mention in the land of Eamon de Valera. This may be only a paper defeat for London, but tall, teacherish President de Valera used his parliament at Dublin last week to rub in his paper victory in a manner as annoying as possible to the English. To launch his Free State on a new foreign policy sharply different from that pursued by British Foreign Secretary...
...wounds and sore defeat...