Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tiddledy-winkers went down to inglorious defeat before the Hoyden College girls, who winked their way to victory in one of the most bitterly contested tipples of the century. Crimson tiddlers were badly handicapped with the loss of Tid Fingers who recently blistered and cramped his pitching thumb from turning pages, while studying for his hour exams...
...nothing is at once dearer and harder to defend than patronage. Any bill putting patronage jobs under civil service would have faced a hard fight at any time and when the Senate Reorganization Bill was brought up for debate the same confident group of anti-Rooseveltian Democrats who helped defeat the Court Plan jumped jubilantly into the fight against it. First test of their strength was an amendment proposed by Massachusetts' David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader...
...first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward A. Rumely who as secretary of something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government admitted that he had spent $50,000 and sent out 800,000 letters to defeat Reorganization, in which Publisher Gannett sees a threat to Democracy. On Dr. Rumely's somewhat ill-chosen mailing list, it turned out, was Texas' Tom Connally who had received a letter addressed to the Honorable Tom Connally at Marlin, Tex., urging him to urge Senator Connally to vote...
Y00esterday's matches; the second defeat for the Englishmen in two starts here, proved conclusively superiority of the American game. The Cambridge racquetmen are the first British collegiate squash team ever to compete in United States...
Falling out of singles into the Charles River is an annual Spring sport, but it got an early and chilly start yesterday afternoon when a rower in such a boat unsuccessfully trying to defeat a wherry, caught a crab and suffered the natural consequences...