Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means of effective passing and Captain Gordon's ability to score from all quarters of the court, the University basketball team was able to defeat Brown at Providence last night by the score of 36-18. The University seized the lead at the opening of the game and never relinquished it; the first half ending with the score standing...
...Saturday the team was able to nose out the strong Princeton sextet with two goals in the final period, tying the series. Three days later the Crimson was again called upon to play an uphill game to clinch the Tiger series with a 1-0 victory. With the Yale defeat on Saturday and another Blue contest to play tomorrow, the Crimson team will have consecutively gone through five of the hardest games of the season...
...which Baron Kato is Prime Minister, to "consolidate its diplomatic policy," describing it as "retrogressive and weak "-particularly in China. This gave the cue to the opposition in the Lower House, who brought forward a motion expressing lack of confidence in the Cabinet. Kato, however, was strong enough to defeat it by an overwhelming majority...
...object of the incendiaries is an attack upon the Church their methods are ingeniously calculated to defeat their own ends. Popular feeling both in America and in Canada is strongly in sympathy with the churchless Catholics...
...historical drama, Pasteur, by Sacha Guitry, arrives at the Empire Theatre on March 14, with Henry Miller in the title role. Historical plays have had a stormy career in this city. They have passed all the way from the triumph of Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln to the tragic defeat of Mackay's George Washington...