Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver's cavernous municipal auditorium one morning last week and settled back for the 1937 convention of the American Federation of Labor. It was A. F. of L.'s 57th, the fourth held in Denver. There in 1894 the late Samuel Gompers received his first and only defeat for the A. F. of L. presidency. There in the same building 1 6 years ago William Green, then the inconspicuous pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, uprose to nominate John L. Lewis for the A. F. of L. presidency. Mr. Lewis was defeated but three years...
Chief personal satisfactions to the chub-cheeked Premier were three: the defeat of handsome, dapper Earl Rowe, new Conservative leader, the victory of Gordon Conant, Hepburnite, at Oshawa-scene of last April's C. I. O. strike against General Motors, squashed by "Mitch"-and a Liberal victory in northern Ontario, stronghold of the C. I. O. mining unions...
...football activities of Yale's Clinton Frank were dimmed by the presence of Yale's Larry Kelley (now graduated) on the same field. Against Pennsylvania last week Frank scored one touchdown, passed to Al Wilson for another, played a brilliant defense, helped a creaking Yale machine defeat Pennsylvania for the fourth year in a row. Score...
Columbia and Army scored three touchdowns apiece. In such a situation to miss one kick for extra point may mean defeat. Columbia missed three. Only satisfaction for Columbia was possession of the country's Player-of-the-Week, Sid Luckman, who completed 18 passes, two for touchdowns, ran back a kickoff for a third. Score...
...enough, to proclaim in the face of all existing dogma that the earth was round. He smiled, too, as he thought of his wanderings in the American waters--then as unknown as a black void and filled with infinite terrors, and the explorations, and the final failures and ultimate defeat of that gallant seafarer. He smiled, thinking of the way the sea often wins out against the boldest plans of men, of the mystery of the sea that made men still love to sail it, and suffer on it, and sometimes conquer...