Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inquire into the causes of the affray. They may be obscure. You will see that it would be troublesome. Besides, you both agree that you are fighting for the same thing, a purse. My advice is that you stop at once before either one has suffered the humiliation of defeat. You will thus, quite naturally, form a warm and lasting friendship cemented in mutual confidence and esteem...
Favorable odds, plus a good team, minus support equals defeat...
...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...
...hour of lively practice yesterday afternoon the University hockey team demonstrated that Saturday's defeat was not the beginning of a slump, but much hard work will be necessary during the next few days if the remaining games with Yale and Princeton are to result satisfactorily. Coach Winsor gave the players 20 minutes of shooting and passing in which the team had made a weak showing at New Haven. A half hour scrimmage followed between the first team and a team composed of the B. A. A. line and the second University defence. A considerable improvement in team play...
...Freshman hockey team received its second defeat of the season at the hands of the St. Paul's School seven by the score of 5 to 1 at Concord on Saturday. The Freshmen were outclassed from the start in the offensive department of the game, the puck remaining almost constantly in 1920's territory during the first ten minutes of play. The hard, accurate shooting of the St. Paul's forwards was too much for the Freshman defence which did not work together very well...