Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general effect of these resolutions is to defeat one of the ends in view, namely, making athletics more general by lowering the standard and lessening the general interest...
...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...Harvard freshmen have already begun preparations for their usual annual defeat by the Yale freshmen.-[Globe...
Last year, after we had defeated the university eight in the Passiac regatta, (their defeat being of course claimed to be unfair), they immediately sent us a challenge for a two mile race, which challenge was very properly not accepted...
...Oxford. I say boldly that this one sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and rawness, has been at the bottom of our attachment to so many beaten causes, of our opposition to so many triumphant movements. And the sentiment is true, and has never been wholly defeated, and has shown its power even in defeat. We have not won our political battles, we have not carried our main points, we have not stopped our adversaries' advance, we have not marched victoriously with the modern world; but we have told silently upon the mind of the country...