Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams can put up a good fight," manager Bob Muellner said last night. "They are better than Cornell, and the varsity will have to work hard to defeat them...
Coach Floyd Wilson will employ his regular starting five, which he said yesterday "jelled" in the first three Ivy contests. At the forwards will be Bob Repetto and Bob Bowditch, whose last-second jump shot sent Cornell to defeat Friday night. Both forwards have been consistently good rebounders, despite their relatively small heights (both...
...that creeping inflation might make the payments worth disappointingly little by the time a young wage earner gets around to harvesting his share at age 65. "The social security system," warned the council, "has created for millions of Americans expectations regarding their future place in economic society. The defeat of beneficiaries' expectations through inflation would gravely imperil the stability of our social, political and economic institutions...
Playing Together. After a defeat, Rupp has been known to order his players to keep their uniforms on until the crowd has left, then send them back on the floor to iron out the mistakes they had made in the game. There is seldom an outstanding star on Rupp's fast-breaking, hard-running Kentucky teams. Rupp does not believe in them. "If the star has an off night, the whole team has an off night." he explains. Says North Carolina's Frank McGuire: "Kentucky has found the secret of basketball, that it's five guys playing...
...valuable; he has been criticized for turning back into San Bernardino Strait, north of Samar when he might have dealt a telling blow to a U.S. force inferior in speed and firepower. But Shima offers the schoolboy historian an understandable summing up of Japanese hesitancy at Leyte: "A further defeat meant to Japan no longer incidental losses but loss of life itself...