Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year, the team received a rather glorifying defeat at the hands of the Navy, a defeat which seemed to make others besides ourselves realize that greater things were in store, for Purdue. This year is on its way, and from the start, it is going to be a PURDUE YEAR...
...take warning, men of Harvard. Joe Forecast is not predicting a defeat for the Crimson. He is merely offering a fashion hint: to wit, the well-dressed Harvard man will keep the flaps on his pockets buttoned...
Colonel Roosevelt's sin was not belittling Smith but in the crudity of his tactics. Smith can always be trusted to give back more than he receives in an open fight. Opponents of his presidential candidacy only defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...
...Philadelphia, foes of the Republican machine bossed by U. S. Senator-Elect William S. Vare rejoiced greatly in defeat. The Vare-picked candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, City Treasurer Harry A. Mackey, defeated J. Hampton Moore, a onetime Philadelphia Mayor, by 73,969 votes (unofficial count). This was over 100,000 votes less than Senator-elect Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward...
...British Army-in-India polo team lost once again to U. S. horsemen. After fighting their way through fierce preliminary matches, the Britains met Thomas Hitchcock Jr. in the finals of the U. S. open championship and with him rode defeat. Hitchcock's play beat Britain in the International matches; Hitchcock's Sands Point team now holds the open title, winning in the finals 11-7. On Hitchcock's four were W. A. Harriman, J. C. Cowdin, U. S. International team substitute, and L. E. Stoddard, former Internationalist. Injury robbed Britain of a better chance. Leading...