Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most impressive games the team played were against the three best teams in the league, in fact. Harvard was the only team in the league to defeat Princeton twice. After losing at Dartmouth, the varsity bounced back to gamely trounce a taller favored Indian team, and thereby eliminate it from the league championship race...
Foster, after a first round bye, pinned Fred Schult of Colgate, but suffered his first defeat of the season, losing to Rutgers' captain, Neal Lesher, 10 to 6, in the quarters...
Another Third Republic tradition, the rapid succession of cabinets, has also been an unwanted feature of the Fourth Republic. Cabinets give up too soon, taking any parliamentary defeat as a rejection of their whole administration, and resign before the Assembly actually votes no-confidence. Also, votes of no-confidence and censure have again developed into common weapons, and are not the exceptional measures they were intended to be. Cabinets have used the "informal vote of confidence," i.e., a threat of resignation in the absence of parliamentary approval on policy, as a frequent weapon rather than an occasional defense...
...even though as the son of an angel he possesses the power to charm all woman, has never found a single woman he could love. The play shows his last attempt to find love, and its pattern is the tragedy of hope in the face of certain defeat...
...number of the senior members of the HDC apparently used their influence to defeat the more radical proposals of newer Club officials. The Board eventually decided to continue its efforts to secure adequate shop space from the University. Board members were optimistic last night about the chances of liquidating the Club's $2000 debt with the proceeds from Doctor's Dilemma, opening next week, and from "one or two other productions...