Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeat of Liberalism is that it is a compromise between two divergent policies. However much people may accept a compromise as a solution to two equally possible courses of action, they do not respect the party which makes it, and makes it not as a necessity but as a continuous party policy. Although the average voter realizes that final compromise is inevitable, he likes to see his party stand four-square on every issue. Liberalism, from the very start of the political race, rides two mounts; and such a jockey is fortunate if he does not end in the dust...
...England is getting back to the two party system", said Professor Wilbur Cortex Abbott, Professor of History in the University, in commenting on the decisive defeat of the Labor party at the polls which was announced yesterday. "The English are beginning to realize that a system of party government based on class distinctions cannot be really representative of public opinion...
...What to do under given conditions was no longer a simple matter of individual ingenuity. Football had been put through the laboratory and reduced to a science. The contagion of Coach Haughton's magnetic personality, moreover, inspired in his teams a pluckiness and "fight" which made them undaunted in defeat as well as in victory. So successful was his system, that when he resigned, Coach Fisher, who had himself been drilled in the Haughton school, chose to continue...
...South. In Canton, where Dr. Sun holds precarious sway, days of street-fighting, between his so-called "Red Army" composed of la- borers, and the "Merchant Fascists," terminated in a disastrous defeat for the latter. As a result of the fighting, a large section of Canton was destroyed by fire, causing damage to the extent of $7,000,000. The position of Dr. Sun was obscure...
...grand champion of the Olympia, owned by O. W. Lehmann. Successful campaigner of uncountable shows, Field Marshal returned to the ring this spring at the South Shore Country Club, Chicago, where he was victorious, though later beaten at Brockton, Mass. Proud as a falcon and dauntless still, his defeat by Knight Commander shadows the end of his show days...