Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pathos of his position and the understanding of the author, would be simply a type "wind-and-rigging" sailor; and on the other the men of country clubs and golf bags, who give libraries as one gives a bone to a dog. Caleb, of course, is foredoomed to defeat. But his end is fully as glorious, and quite as symbolical, as the final plunge of Captain Ahab's ship in "Moby Dick...
...Crimson team, although defeated once by Andover, has shown its power in the last three games, all of which it has won easily, and a victory this afternoon is all that is needed to cap a successful season. In four victories, one tie, and one defeat, the 1927 team has scored 13 points to its opponents' 5, the best Freshman record for several years...
Whatever the sport "experts" may say the fact remains that the Harvard team, which "found itself about the middle of the second half of the Princeton game", is at the crest of its development. It has tasted both defeat and victory, and it likes victory better. It has been hailed as a possible mystery team, an eleven that may uncover deep laid schemes and unexpected manoeuvres-all this, perhaps, because the reporters must fill from four to eight columns no matter how little they know. But to the undergraduate and to the graduate who has watched the team develop there...
...Freshman coach, S. B. Chase 3L, and University Coach Wachter both addressed the meeting. The later emphasized the importance of "condition, team-work' and spirit". He also took the Freshman defeat at the hands of Yale in football as an example of the necessity of substitutes for a winning team...
Protection has never been a popular doctrine in England and despite the extraordinary condition of unemployment and the tendency to dump foreign goods in the only free market of the world, it is likely that the Conservatives would be doomed to defeat were it not for the peculiar political situation. True, the National Liberals and those who were at one time dubbed as the "Wee Frees" have united in the persons of their leaders. But the great Labor party, the official opposition, remains out of the fold. "Divide et impera" have thought the Conservatives, and they have fitted their actions...