Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adult education America must ultimately depend for the invigorating of democracy and the defeat here of dictatorial trends, which have already captured much of Europe, Miss Hewitt and Dr. Mather believe...
...beating Hahvahd (often vulgarly referred to as Harvard) 6-to-0, but her other triumphs were impressive. . . . That year Centre had one of her seven undefeated, untied seasons (a "2-U" season as it were). . . . Centre was the fourth Southern team to play Hahvahd and only the first to defeat Hahvahd...
Strong Man Vargas was not given his office by popular suffrage. He seized power after his defeat at the polls in 1930 by marching into Rio de Janeiro with an army of his neighbors from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, bottling old President Washington Luis up in jail, cockily proclaiming himself Provisional President instead. That coup has been known as the "Coffee Revolution," since Brazil's former dominant States, São Paulo and Minas Geraes, had been weakened by a collapsing coffee market. Dressy but small (5 ft. 4 in.), President Vargas proclaimed himself...
...blather, with interpolations on foreign and domestic affairs. Louder than, and about as funny as Jimmy Durante, Jack White is 44, has been hoofing, gagging, minstreling, cabareting since 1911. More than anything else in life he loves the New York Giants. During the season, when the Giants fail to defeat their opponents, White posts a sign in his Club: NO GAME TODAY...
...dons its equipment for the approaching battle the Harvard team will have one of three attitudes. It won't be sick with fear, naturally, but it may await the kick-off with confidence, quake at the thought of defeat, or vow never to yield...