Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official business since his defeat by Mr. Harding in 1920 has been the publishing of his newspaper, the Dayton News.* But he has expressed himself publicly at frequent intervals. In May, 1921, he declined to criticise Harding. By January of the next year, he assailed the Administration's Limitation of Armaments Conference as a "resort to the noisy methods of a circus" and added that the Administration had "profaned Republican history ... by forsaking the soul of Abraham Lincoln for the spleen of Henry Cabot Lodge." Two months later he attacked the Administration for refusing to participate in the Genoa...
Rawlins expressed little difficulty in defeating D. H. King of the Milton Club three straight games by the scores of 15-9, 15-8, 15-6. He also has reached the semi-finals in the Freshman squash tournament by defeating A. B. Jackson '27, 3-1. He will meet Shiras Morris '27 in the upper half while R. B. Merriman will be attempting to defeat D. H. Gordon '27 in the lowen half...
Early in the season Wachter's men eked out a 30 to 26 triumph over the Tech. five in a see-saw fray during which the lead shifted constantly. Three goals in the last two minutes by Smith and Gordon turned seeming defeat into none-too-glorious victory...
...against Poincaré's measures. In most cases this abstention is a protest against Poincaré's foreign policy or against his abuse of the parliamentary system. Actually Premier Poincaré's position in the Chamber is not at all solid and an imminent Government defeat is neither improbable nor impossible...
...season against Princeton, yet in the first case the victory was foreshadowed by a 1-1 tie with the Maples, while the second time the only prelude was the B. A. A. rout. On another occasion a goal-aplece deadlock with the Maples ushered in the 3-0 defeat by the Elis, and more recently still the successes over Princeton and Hamilton only paved the way for the recently departed Indians...