Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parliamentary "tricks." "I have a lively recollection of all sorts of ingenuities practiced by oppositions in order to spring a snap division upon the Government so that it might be turned out on a defeat. I have known bathrooms downstairs utilized, nor for legitimate purposes but for the illegitimate purpose of packing as many members surreptiously inside their doors as their physical limitations would allow. . . . I have seen this House practically empty when the bells began to ring and then turned into a riotous sort of market place by the inrush of members for the purpose of finding the Government...
...Western Front in the vicinity of Ocotlan, about SO miles from the town of Guadelajara, a crushing defeat was inflicted on the rebels. After two days of artillery preparation, 10,000 Federal troops were hurled against the enemy, and after eleven hours of furious fighting they were routed...
...best word to take the place of a "spinster," because he felt "convinced that many marriages are effected due to the odium attached to the words 'spinster' an 'old maid.'" The new word is to indicate a "condition of triumph rather than defeat," thereby forestalling such marriages "and so serving humanity...
...injection of Captain Gordon and Smith into the University line-up in the second half did not prevent the Amherst five from defeating the Crimson 27 to 24 Saturday night. It was Harvard's fourth successive defeat...
...going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet can neither produce nor defeat genius, it can nevertheless distort its application and profoundly affect disposition and character...