Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball team will try to defeat the weather and the Bowdoin nine this afternoon on Soldiers Field. If conditions are favorable, the contest will start at 4 o'clock. Recent cancellations owing to rain have not granted Coach F.G. Mitchell sufficient opportunity to give his first string hurlers the necessary work-outs, and, with a difficult game against Michigan scheduled for Saturday, he plans to send J.N. Barbee '28 to the box this afternoon. F.B. Cutts '28, a likely candidate to share the pitching duties against the Wolverines with Barbee, may see service in today's encounter...
Bulgaria is a hath not nation. No other suffered such cruel losses of territory after defeat in the World War. Her currency is still debased, her people impoverished. She is disarmed, and yet her public peace is menaced by the organized brigands of Macedonia. Therefore when 30 earthquake shocks smote Bulgaria, last week, the phenomena seemed like the act of a malignant and relentless...
With approximately a third of their scheduled contests behind them, the University diamond forces have yet to taste defeat at the hands of a college nine. The single downfall suffered by the Crimson team was in the contest with the still undefeated Quantico Marines...
...best its proponent can say for it is, "as fair and reasonable as is possible with a bill of this kind," an admission which leaves much free play to imaginations apt in possibilities for graft. Yet with the precedents already set the chances of the President being able to defeat it are very slight. Restraint from interference in the other branches of government is a fine sounding policy for an executive to have, but at times its results seem scarcely worthy...
...event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student who stands high in the English Department will feel an added obligation on him to put forth his best endeavors. Since it is not known which students are to bear the weight of responsibility of Harvard victory or defeat all will to a certain extent feel that responsibility...