Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After the defeat of the Conservative Ministry in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence (TIME, Jan. 28), Premier Baldwin taxied to Buckingham Palace and tendered the resignations of his Cabinet to the King and advised His Majesty to ask James Ramsay Macdonald, Labor Leader of the Opposition, to form a Cabinet. The King accepted the Cabinet's resignations and took immediate steps to summon Mr. Macdonald to the Palace. Thus was the usual procedure of an outgoing Cabinet rigidly followed...
...result of the Class B squash matches on Saturday, the University team has definitely settled its claim to the championship title. With the four to one defeat of the Lincoln's Inn Society, Harvard now has a seven point lead over the Union Boat Club, its nearest rival, and only five more matches to play in the tournament. Any losses will not affect the Crimson's standing...
Yale's triumph in the 1927 relay was the result of a gallant sprint by her anchor man, Hutchinson, which changed a five-yard Crimson lead 75 yards from the tape into Blue victory which was only a shade from a dead heat. But despite this defeat, as near to victory as defeat can be, the 1927 team gave a remarkable performance...
...college civilizations were in rivalry. In scholarship and debate aristocracy triumphed, but in physical contest democracy won. Then it was that the Hogans, Hefflefingers, and Hinkeys rolled the Hallowells, Newells, and Cabots in muddy defeat while illiterate undergraduates worked themselves into frenzy chanting ill selected words set to the tune of the Prussian national hymn...
...George's School basketball team will invade the Freshman Athletic Building at 4 o'clock this afternoon and attempt to hand the Crimson first year five its third defeat in four games...