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Word: defeated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson entered a triangular meet in the Stadium with an even chance to defeat a strong and deep Penn team. Cornell was expected to trouble the varsity in a few key events. As it turned out, there was no cause for alarm, as the varsity trounced the Quakers, 861/2 to 581/2, with Cornell scoring a mere 28 points...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Varsity Turns In Fine Season; Benjamin, Blodgett, deKiewiet Excel | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Elis, mired in the league's cellar, have had pitching problems all season, and it is still uncertain who wil start against the Crimson. Diminutive Pete Higuchi, who suffered the defeat in last year's Crimson victory, is a possibility...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Baseball Varsity to Meet B.U. Today, Yale Tomorrow | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...bowed his head in defeat and shuffled onward. It took him all the way from the Square to Emerson to recover from his mortification. Outside room D, Vag took a deep breath and prepared to make an authoritative entrance into his Soc. Rel. class. But, all the way down the long aisle, Vag was acutely aware of the fact that his rubbers were being more authoritative than he was. He tried walking slowly, hoping to lull his rubbers into relative silence, but they were not so easily tricked. Vag fell into a seat in near panic. It was at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...Defeat Change of Meeting Times...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Council Endorses Rise In Health Service Fee | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

...Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Veto Upheld | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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