Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only comparative score which is available is that of the Dartmouth contests. Syracuse defeated Dartmouth in an early season encounter, while the University team lost a close game to the Hanoverian invaders. Otherwise both teams have had seasons marred by defeat although the Orange eleven has the edge on victories...
...Crimson seconds have had a season of varied successes to date, not mid of occasional flashes of brilliance. The backfield has developed a well organized passing and running attack which reached its highest efficiency last Monday when it gave the Abbington eleven its first defeat in years. The Inc which proved unstable against the 1932 attack, has improved materially a his week, and is expected to furnish a galwart opposition to the charges of the Bruin this afternoon. HARVARD SECONDS BROWN 1932 Bemminger, l.e. r.e., Sawyer Dwinell, l.t. r.t., Ferrebee Stearns, l.g. r.g., Pollock Warner, c. c., Coffin Brown...
Although the characters are inevitably caught up in revolutionary politics, they show the typical Mexican indifference to all but the present, and live and love equally well in victory and defeat...
...Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...
...York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had, in 1920, in 1924, and 1928 placed the name of Smith before Democratic Conventions, and who had dubbed him The Happy Warrior. With his Warrior in unhappy defeat, Governor-Elect Roosevelt took small pleasure in predictions that he himself might be the hope of an, at least momentarily, nationally hopeless Democracy. Also, since he had not yet entirely recovered from paralysis of the legs, Mr. Roosevelt could not confidently contemplate long years of public office...