Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Harvard track teams have had regular and sometimes discouraging ups and downs, cross country has rarely had a season not brilliantly successful. In the history of Harvard-Yale cross country competition the Crimson forces have met defeat only three times, in 1924, 1933, and 1936. The ten year interval between 1924 and 1933 was not to be immediately repeated, and whether last year's low ebb was but bed rock for another long series of victories over the Blues is highly doubtful. For this fall Coach Jaakko Mikkola is faced with the dull prospect of preparing a now starless...
Last week the electrical display, as President Roosevelt set out to see his grandchildren, was unusually effective. For two days the Presidential special rolled across Grandfather Roosevelt's constituency-until it came to the home States of three Democratic Senators who last spring helped defeat the Roosevelt plan to enlarge the Supreme Court: Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward Raymond Burke and Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Its first scheduled stop was Cheyenne...
From two dangers besetting C. I. O., the A. F. of L. is safe: the danger of an untrained army's disintegration and the danger of political defeat that might be brought on by following a too adventurous leader. Not even in numbers has the A F. of L. yet become the lesser half of the House of Labor. The C. I. O. vaingloriously claims 3,700,000 members, many of whom, however, are only members insofar as they have signed an application blank. The A. F. of L. after losing 1,000,000 members...
Chinese staff officers were not too depressed by this defeat, however. For many weeks their strategy in the north had been deliberately to sacrifice the provincial troops that seemed to have neither proper artillery nor planes, and prepare for a real defense at Paoting, 85 mi. southwest of Peiping, where modern divisions of Chiang's own army were being rushed. Japanese officers apparently expected to meet these well-equipped troops at any instant last week. Japanese scouting planes saw large numbers of anti-aircraft batteries, equipment that had been entirely unnecessary heretofore...
...power had dropped to a few hundred, he did not try to fight off the U. S. naval commander who demanded his surrender. The U. S. public gave him a big ovation, then dropped him when he turned viciously on the U. S. Navy as the source of his defeat...