Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes, with the seniors. And in it all the great metropolitan daily sees a significant object lesson. Old Gold goes down, but the fight goes on, and when the final smoke from the fray has cleared persistency will win the day. For dejected Freshmen remains the moral: Not a defeat in a class full...
...records of the rival teams are such that the outcome of the match cannot be prophesied with any degree of certainty. Tufts is credited with victories over M. I. T., Amherst, and Springfield; whereas Harvard has defeated Columbia and M. I. T. but lost to West Point. The defeat of the University team by the Cadet grapplers constituted the closest match of the season, the Army winning by a score of 18 to 16 though both teams had an equal number of bouts...
...them orbs of royal blue." They were the eyes of Her Majesty the Queen-Mother Maria Christina. During the Spanish-American War she was Regent of Spain for her stripling son, the present sprightly King Alfonso XIII. Surely all U. S. gentlefolk who ever gloated over the U. S. defeat of Regent Christina's forces must feel a little sheepish as they view again her picture (see cut). Spaniards know that Queen Christina combined the majesty and mass of a Roman Emperor with the devout, portly sweetness of a Mother Abbess...
...Hahn came favorable reports. Her experts, unlike Sir Joseph's, were relying on history, measurements, concrete evidence, rather than esthetic considerations. They were rumored to have discovered telltale thumbprints.* In Kansas City, art dealer J. Conrad Hug twice mortgaged his home to obtain funds for the defeat of Sir Joseph...
Iselin was not playing his customary game. While he started off fairly well in the first game, he dropped the second with little resistance. In the third game, however, he made a valiant attempt to stave off defeat, the game being deuced before Strachen finally...