Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, John E. Powers, president of the state Senate, is favored to defeat his rival, John F. Collins, for the mayoralty Incumbent Democrat Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia, is expected to soundly defeated Harold E. Stassen, who is trying a political comeback...
Cheered in the third period by news of the varsity's unexpected win over Penn, the freshman football team rallied back from a 6-0 deficit in the last quarter to defeat Brown, 20 to 6, Saturday at Providence...
...they had seen this same performance before, they were quite right. Two years age the setting, plot, and featured performer were all the same as they were today--only the supporting cast had changed. The spot was rain-swept Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and a Harvard team, fresh from a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and in the midst of one of its worst seasons on record, was expected to be easy prey for the Quaker eleven. And the star, just as today, was Boulris...
...rabble-rousing Zik who may wind up running the show. Last year he journeyed north to the Sardauna's palace with a proposal to work together to defeat Awolowo. The Sardauna was happy to cooperate, for he bitterly hates Awolowo, who for years has urged that the powers of the northern emirs be reduced and is trying to split off the large non-Moslem "Middle Belt" from the Northern Region and make it a separate state. None of the three regions is likely to get the absolute majority needed to rule all Nigeria by itself, but a Northern-Eastern...
...president of the Undergraduate Council, is a top NROTC5A campus policeman vainly attempts to restore order as students battle for a piece of the goal posts following last week's game against Navy. In the background, a fraternity poster appears, urging the then-undefeated and untied football team to defeat the Midshipmen. The two teams tied...