Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twice before I have come home from war, back to Michigan, back to friendship, back to confidence and kindness. Now for the third time I come from war, made hateful by poisoned gas and base stratagems, from defeat without shame to welcome without flaw...
...Cohen, Negro, to be Collector of Customs at New Orleans, by vote of 39-38. Cohen's name has been before the Senate three times since November, 1922; the first time the Senate ignored the nomination, the last two it rejected the nomination (TIME, March 3). The last defeat occurred about a month ago by a margin of two votes. Meantime the Adminis-tration had put forth efforts on Cohen's behalf...
After the protracted struggle in the Chamber of Deputies (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.) the Emergency Taxation Bill, which had since the fall of the franc become indispensable to the negotiation of the loan of $100,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co., faced the possibility of defeat in the Senate. There the Government rested on a doubtful majority...
...DIED TWICE?Edwin Arlington Robinson?Macmillan ($125). The narrative of Fernando Nash, a musician, is in blank verse. He died in the spirit and, having tasted the uttermost of disillusion and defeat, is 'born again?before he dies in the flesh?to such a vision of glory as "not more than once or twice, and hardly that, in a same century" will be given to another. An average between the best and the worst that Mr. Robinson can do, it is neither masterpiece nor failure. As such, it is filled with cramped or involuted obscurities. But as such...
...University fencing team had less trouble than was anticipated in defeating the J. Sanford Saltus Club nine matches to four Saturday afternoon at the Hemenway gymnasium. Although the final score with the foils was 7-2 and 2-2 with the duelling swords, the result of the match was never in doubt after Twyffort's defeat by the Lane brothers...