Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large factor in the Massachusetts defeat was the intense opposition of the Catholic Church, led by Cardinal O'Connell...
...came later in the first week. Wagner's Tannhaüser was her medium. Never more beautiful to the eye, she succeeded in making the too-good-to-be-true Elisabeth almost pathetically human. Herr Laubenthal in the title role saved himself no effort, and therein lay his defeat...
...occurred almost simultaneously to thousands of people that the smashing defeat of the anti-railroad radicals left a clear track ahead for railway stocks. Accordingly the Stock Exchange has been deluged with buying orders, and sharp advances have been caused. The public has been out of the stock market for some time, but it reentered with an almost unparalleled vigor and enthusiasm...
Evidently the stock market expected President Coolidge's reelection, and more or less "discounted" it last August. But it apparently failed to anticipate the landslide which promised to strengthen his hold on Congress, or the smashing defeat dealt the radicals. Including "odd lots" (transactions for less than 100 shares), considerably over 2,000,000 shares of stock a day were sold on the New York Stock Exchange for several days in succession, in the heaviest trading seen in several years...
...running of W. L. Tibbetts '26 and the poor showing of Cutcheon, Captain Chapin, Swede, and Harrison, the University placed second to Yale in the third annual H-Y-P cross-country race at Princeton Saturday morning, Yale scored 27, the University 35, Princeton 59. It was the first defeat the Crimson has experienced this season, and was unexpected by close followers of the team...