Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators get into the news for what they say. Retiring Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield of Oregon is news for what he does. In September, 1925, he was arrested on charges of throwing crockery drunkenly around a restaurant. The case against him was dropped, but the incident contributed to his defeat in the Senatorial elections last year. Then in July, 1926, he fought a menacing undertow for 15 minutes at Ocean City, Md., rescued a drowning woman. Last week he was greeted with a law suit; two Manhattan modistes demanded that he pay them $1,121 for his daughter...
Since 1905 a foul blot has stained the national checker escutcheon. In that year a team of British thinkers journeyed to Boston, administered an overwhelming defeat to the U. S. players. Last week in Manhattan the blot was removed. The U. S. team swamped the combined talent of England and Scotland, hopping to victory in each of the twelve rounds played...
Exhibiting the fastest riding and the best team work seen in Boston this year, the University Polo team won the indoor Polo league championship Saturday night from the 101st Field Artillery team by a score of 14 1/2 to 2. The defeat was more overwhelming than it had been expected to be, and was mainly accountable to the excellent work of the University trio...
...Baker '22, W. P. Dixon '25, R. S. Wright '26, H. N. Rawlins '27, E. W. Debevoise '25, Wallace Johnston, S. P. Clark '14, Ralph Powers, P. M. Lenhart '27, H. T. Balliere. The University team has won 12 national titles since 1911 and up to their defeat here by the English team, they had been undefeated for four years...
...legislatures throughout the U. S. in prosperous states of a prosperous nation, men have sought for months new ways to defeat crime, have argued the old question: Will crime decrease as punishment becomes more sure, more certain...