Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long article written especially for The New York World, and published in the U. S. before it appeared in England, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Opposition and generally accepted as prospective Prime Minister, answered the contentions of Mr. Asquith. Said he: "Supposing the Liberals were to defeat the Labor Government and that the Government resigned. What would happen I do not know. Everything would depend on the circumstances. The Liberal assumption that the only thing that could happen would be for their leader to be sent for is certainly erroneous...
...General de la Huerta protested against the decision and as a counter-move issued a decree claiming the oil taxes in the name of the Revolution and under the provisions of the Huerta-Lamont agreement. Physical fighting was confined to unimportant engagements, the largest of which resulted in the defeat of the Revolutionary General, Romula Figueroa, and the loss...
...However it is a considerably weaker team which comes to Cambridge this afternoon, for all of the stars except Captain Simpson have been lost. Coach Chase has been making this game the early season objective for the 1927 quintet in order to avenge last year's defeat...
...summer the streets were constantly placarded with signs advocating and predicting the return of the royal house and the beginning of a war of revenge against France. It is true, on the other hand, that nothing that has happened since the armistice has so depressed the Germans as their defeat in the 'war of 1923' or the Rhine and Ruhr...
President Obregon left Mexico City for the battlefront and on the day of his arrival the Federal forces announced a crushing defeat of the rebels. Two hundred rebels were captured...