Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...boastfulness but only of reminder it may be said that the Anglo-Saxon and his near kin have more than a bit of the "Hang on!" spirit which turns defeat into victory. The defence of Lucknow, the fight of the Bon Homme Richard, the squares at Waterloo, the Alamo, the peach orchard at Gettysburg, are examples of a spirit in which the American soldier has a share by inheritance direct, or by acquired collateral interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will...
...results of the election for mayor in Boston gave the victory to Andrew J. Peters '95, ex-Secretary of the Treasury. His plurality was from 8,000 to 10,000 votes over Mayor Curley, according to a statement given out by former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald in admitting the defeat of his own candidate, Congressman James Gallivan of South Boston, who ran third...
...British Empire. But ahead of both these comes the fact that Jerusalem has been wrested from Turkish rule and German domination. This was the fact that was uppermost in our minds when the news came that Jerusalem had fallen. At present we are thinking more of how to defeat Germany than anything else. The capture of this city was a spark of encouragement that we were making progress in our aim. We did not intend to slight so great a race as the Jewish people, one which is doing so much in this struggle, but our pleasure over the Allies...
...leading interests, sport and war preparation, continue to wedge their way into the glossed pages of the Illustrated. The current number affords a photographic record of the latest Harvard disaster--the defeat of the Freshman team by Yale--but alongside such a record are pictures of the same Freshman team whipping the Tigers. These latter were taken by an enterprising staff photographer, who made the trip to New Jersey on the hunch that victory snapshots would be obtainable only there...
With a scoreless tie resulting in the Camp Devens-Naval Reserve football game at Braves Field yesterday morning, the inter-service championship of the Northeast is still undetermined. Coach Haughton had not had enough time to develop sufficient team work with the Devens squad to defeat the Newport sailors, whom a long season had moulded into a well-playing team from a group of star individuals...