Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other on view at present in New York is "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekov, consummately produced by Eva Le Gallienne's earnest little band of repertory players in the rickety old Civic Repertory Theatre on Fourteenth Street. Nanimova heads the cast of the play which depicts the slow defeat of a noble Russian family ironically treasuring its unproductive cherry orchard, only to finally see it chopped down by a newly rich peasant who buys the estate...
Casey was one of the most prominent gridiron performers of his day, and as Freshman coach, he has had an unusually successful career, having lost but one contest during his three years in that position. His teams have been consistently victorious over Yale, and his only defeat came at the hands of Andover in the first game of the 1926 season...
...sports but Smith was able to pile up more seconds and thirds and thus nose out the others Standish captured the swimming meet which was added to the list of sports for the first time this year. In the basketball league Gore went through the nine games without a defeat and then defeated the class and fraternity league winners to gain the University intramural laurels...
...types of residents sit elbow to elbow in the dining hall. Equally discordant is the idea of a separate commons for the instructors. While the older men might well have a small, auxiliary smoking room for their special use, to establish an individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance can but result in only occasional and formal, contact between tutor and student...
...Quaker parents in North Carolina and educated at Quaker colleges, Mr. Dixon, as a lawyer, went west, became U. S. Senator from Montana, later its Governor. He went off Bull Moosing in 1912, remained a Progressive, dabbled in many an insurgent movement. However he was not sufficiently irregular to defeat Democratic Burton Kendall Wheeler for the U. S. Senate last year...