Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...populi-was in New Hampshire. Only 11 delegates were involved, but all came out instructed for or partial to Candidate Hoover. Senator Moses, a charter subscriber to Hooverism, polled the highest vote. One Everett R. Rutter, the sole would-be-delegate in favor of Calvin Coolidge, was defeated. Only four years ago when Senator Moses refused to run as a Coolidge delegate he suffered the outstanding political defeat of his astute career...
...that it would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...
...Sultan "whose easy defeat cannot be assumed," even by the British Empire, has placed above one of his palace doors a verse which might be rendered thus...
...versatility in both the shot put and the broad jump. One of his most spectacular triumphs was in the thirty-fourth I. C. A. A. A. A. meet held in the Stadium in 1909 when he had to heave the shot 46 feet 6 1-4 inches to defeat W. F. Krueger of Swarthmore and J. J. Horner of Michigan. Horner who finished third is himself one of the spectacular weight men of Michigan track history. He later established I. C. A. A. A. A. records in the shot put event. Now, as head of Horner's great alma mater...
Harper will introduce Assistant Dean W. H. Nelson '04 and C. C. Buell '23 as the principal speakers of the evening. The former is lecturer and tutor in the division of History, Government, and Economics. Buell was captain of the 1922 football team, the last team to defeat Yale on the gridiron. He was also a coach of this year's University team...