Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockne's much touted Notre Dame team comes east a favorite over West Point in their contest at the Polo Grounds. Percy Haughton's Columbia team has a hard afternoon in store with Pennsylvania, and Rutgers can hardly expect to beat Cornell, even though Williams handed the Ithacans a defeat last Saturday...
...predecessor's defeat gave him his chance to become President of the Massachusetts Senate with the inevitable, machine-controlled sequence of Lieutenant Governor and Governor...
...under obligations to Mr. Anderson, who is running on the Independent ticket. I believe him to be honest, sincere and capable. I have a personal affection for him and perhaps I am doing him an injustice when I ask you to support Senator Walsh. But the defeat of Senator Walsh in this campaign would be looked upon by the country at large as a repudiation of the magnificent fight against corruption in the Capitol at Washington...
...Conservative motion was considered almost certain of defeat and the Liberals were expected to support the Government. But on the issue of the Anglo-Russian Treaty, the Conservatives and Liberals agreed; neither will support the Government. The Treaty was, however, not expected to come up for debate until November; and the indications were, despite the antipathy to a general election, that the Cabinet of Mr. James Ramsay MacDonald would fall and that the King would dissolve Parliament...
...height of the applause, comes a trivial issue and Parliament, which withstood the acid test of the Russian treaty, is dissolved by a drop of water. MacDonald modestly bows, acknowledges defeat, and hastens to blame the general election upon the Liberals; for all parties know that an election at the present time is distasteful to the people...