Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Saturday's game will furnish the first opportunity to compare the Princeton, Yale, and the University Freshman elevens. Exeter has suffered defeat at the hands of both Princeton and Yale by the decisive scores of 12 to 0, and 20 to 0. A light line is the chief weakness of the Academy team...
...occasions when he was made prime minister, his stay in office was embittered by the virulent opposition of the extreme radicals, who on one occasion passed a vote of confidence in his successor upon his announcing identically the same program as the day before had caused M. Ribot's defeat. But in spite of such treatment he has been willing to perform every service in his power for the good of the country...
Both these ideas must be contended with, and the justification for their existence removed. The only way to defeat the German army is with another and better army. Force can only be met with force. We must drive the German army from its present advantageous positions if we are to drive the vindication of force at the same time from the German mind...
...hard to tell which of these aspects is the more important. The military defeat of Germany would destroy the militarism of the imperialists. On the other hand, a re-assertion on the part of all the allies of the principles of President Wilson and the new Russian democracy, as well as their actual interpretation, would split the democratic from the imperialistic elements in Germany. Such a movement would accomplish our armies in the war no less than military success. The United States does not have to go through three years of war to find out that it is fighting...
...many savage races in the world, and so much rich but undeveloped land, it is perhaps too much to expect that this will be the last war. But with a common purpose between this country and the allied nations of Europe, it may well be hoped that the defeat of Germany will mark the end of war in Europe for all time. This is the justification for America's entrance into the struggle. If this end is attained, the dead will not have died in vain...