Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article such as this I can give no idea of the tremendous excitement which such races arouse. Their result is always in doubt. A "crab", or still worse, bad coxing may spell disaster; a dogged stroke in the boat ahead may stave off defeat with the enemy prow hanging above his rudder...
...sporting scribes of the day testify that Yale showed a woeful ignorance of the rules, and ascribes to that fault the overwhelming defeat which was her portion at the hands of Harvard. Four field goals and four touchdowns told the story of the Crimson's superiority. Yale was held scoreless...
...University soccer team went down to defeat before the Yale booters on Soldiers Field this morning in a hard fought game when the Blue scored tow goals in the fourth quarter and won, 3 to 1. The Freshman teams played four over-time periods of five minutes each after battling to a scoreless tie in the regular game, and Yale won by a goal made in the third over-time period...
...Everest Expedition which made two valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...
...Yale gunmen at the Everett Gun Club. Th honors in the two shoots last year were divided, as the University won the first victory of 23 years in the fall meet, but Yale won the spring meet, and the University trap-shooters are out to retrieve this last defeat...