Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither in the schools which he is aiding nor in any others endowed by "big business men" will the truth soon conquer if the opinions of the endowers are allowed to control the academic machinery. "Capitalists" advance the cause of education by contributing their millions, but they defeat its very aim by assuming its direction...
...George Hoague Jr. '26, and W. P. Locke '27. All the men who wrestled against Yale last year are back except Karolitz and Michelson. With a large squad of aspirants for the team reporting regularly, Coach Lewis hopes to better the record of last year's team, whose defeat at the hands of Yale spoiled an otherwise perfect season...
...While the parliamentary situation is thus left pretty much as before, it is at any rate encouraging that in Germany as a whole the voters have administered a stinging defeat to General Ludendorf and his crew of 'fire eaters...
...year ago, is now beginning to improve rapidly, the moderate parties would seem to have some chance of convincing the German people that their best interests are bound up with the present regime, and that the word 'Republic', hitherto associated in the minds of so many Germans only with defeat, humiliation and misery, may come to mean peace, prosperity, and restoration to an honorable place among the nations of the world...
...must be obvious that a Senator cannot make every effort to defeat and destroy a Party and, at the same time, participate in its conferences, deciding upon future policies. I do not question Senator LaFollette's clear right to head a new Party; but, in my judgment, that clearly disqualifies him for membership here. I do not imagine Senator LaFollette desires to participate in our conferences...