Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spalding seems best fitted for the position of relief quarterback. He is at his best in crucial moments of the game, when a victory or defeat might depend on the choice of one play. It, therefore, seems likely that Coach Fisher will reserve him for some such moment. The conclusion of this reasoning is that Stafford will be one of the eleven on the Union platform tonight...
...attributed the defeat of Premier MacDonald to a growing suspicion in the minds of the English people that London had become too closely allied with Moscow, and that Sovietism had infested the Labor government...
When his opinion was asked concerning the statements of some newspapers in this country that the defeat of the Labor party in England is the death knell of all political parties based on class distinctions, Mr. Williams declared that any such contention is wrong. "The Labor party in England is too strongly entrenched to suffer permanently from this defeat," he said. "I do think, however, that the La Follette Progressive Party in this country will die because it is opposed by the American Federation of Labor...
...majority of four over all the other Parties. The last Storting (Parliament) was composed as follows: Conservatives (and Moderate Liberals) 57 Liberals 37 Communists 29 Agrarians 17 Socialists 8 Democrats 2 Total 150 Thus the result of the elections is a victory for the Moderates and a crushing defeat for the Communists...
Harvard will open the second half of its football schedule with the game against Boston University at 2 o'clock this afternoon. B. U. has had a stiff season hampered by numerous injuries and has gone down to defeat three times. This afternoon, however, Coach Whelan will part forth as strong a combination as he can muster. To finish the day with honors is not beyond possibility, he believes...