Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...think that Congress is against it, though far from unanimously, yet with sufficient strength to defeat any measure proposing Universal Military Training for men in America. Yet, from the experiences I have had, and the articles I have read on the subject, I am sure the people as a whole in the United States desire to see some form of Universal training...
...Cambridge. Bates, Boston College, Colby, Tufts, Springfield Y. M. C. A. do not appear as opponents next fall, their places being taken by the University of Maine, Williams, Centre College, and Notre Dame. Both Maine and Williams last battled in the Stadium in 1913, when they went down to defeat before the Haughton machine of that year, the former 34 to 0 and the latter...
Evidence is becoming overwhelming that, in spite of the wordy smoke-screen and conciliatory barrage emanating from Berlin, German character has not much changed with defeat. This is partly due to the Teutonic mind which refused to believe that the Central Powers were crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...
...enmeshed themselves. The close of the session was upon them. When Senator Hitchcock had plunged his side into such difficulty that he wished the aid of the President, he found Wilson sick. Thus the vote was taken after action had gone so far that compromise was impracticable, and defeat naturally resulted...
...considers that he should be nearly unanimously chosen for a backfield position on the team. Continuing on this theme, the Post says: "Under the hottest kind of fire Casey broke through for Harvard and performed his appointed task. It was the mighty Eddie Casey who saved the Crimson from defeat. He is one man whose fame will outlast the fame of other 1919 All-American selections...