Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Free registry would endanger the safety of the American nation. - (a) The experience of the civil war showed the value of ship-yards. "Ninety-days gun-boats" enabled the North to control the Southern rivers and defeat the "Merrimac." - (b) The weakness of the South was due in a large measure to her lack of being able to build ships. - (c) In case of a war with England we should be helpless...
...imbue them with the meaning of the term amateur that they will never consider playing for gain except as belonging to the professional class, and that they will always feel such a love for sport itself as to long for victory first, and next to that a hot inglorious defeat...
...defeat of the freshman eleven at New Haven Saturday was not unexpected. The team was too light to hope for victory against so heavy a set of players as it had to meet. Taking into consideration this disparity of weight as weil as of experience and the discouragement incident to playing the game on strange grounds and before an unsympathetic crowd, the freshman eleven did as well as it could have been expected...
...class has still plenty of chance to redeem itself. Having suffered defeat in foot ball it should bend its energies with the greater determination to the development of a good crew and nine. A victory in base ball and another on the water in the spring will wipe out the recollection of this defeat in foot ball. And they are all that will...
Nearly 40,000 people saw Yale defeat Princeton yesterday, at the Manhattan Athletic Grounds...