Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haughton '99, a former Harvard captain, took charge of Harvard football destinies as coach, and it was this year that ushered in a new football era. A defeat came the next year., and two scoreless ties followed before the great Haughton system got fairly started on its conquering march that lasted with one halt...
...Crimson seconds have not such an enviable record, largely because of their difficult schedule. They showed their endurance and power in defeating three class teams, the championship Freshman dormitory team, and the ineligibles in one afternoon. Their best offensive attack was demonstrated in the 26 to 13 defeat of the championship Abington team...
...lawyers in the criminal case that he had employed in the chancery proceedings? He has not. He hired the best criminal lawyers he could find. Chancery or civil practice is very widely different from criminal practice. To put two civil lawyers up against a corps of criminal experts spelled defeat for the government from the first, for criminal prosecution is in itself a fine art that can be developed only by long practice...
...overwhelming defeat . . . should remove the issue of prohibition permanently from the field of partisan politics, where it never had a legitimate place...
...tenth birthday of the German Republic passed, last week, uncelebrated and ignored. No parades, no holiday. In the words of Minister of Justice Erich Koch-Weser "We look back ten years not to a birth but to a defeat. This is no holiday for Germany...