Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Club which suffered a 1 to 0 defeat in its opening game with Yale on Saturday night will probably be strengthened by the presence of George Owen. Jr., '23 in the defense line. J. P. Chase '28 may be in the University Club's forward line in place of either Everett, or Clark Hodder...
...Senate should take such action during the present session as to enable the U. S. to ratify the treaty before the expiration of my term of office." Equally well known is the fact that Missouri's cigar-gnawing Senator Reed disapproves of the Treaty and would like to defeat it as a crowning event of his irreconcilable career. Other opponents are California's Johnson, New Hampshire's Moses, Minnesota's Shipstead. Maryland's Bruce, bumbling against the Treaty last week, called it "utter inanity...
Yesterday the Boston Harvard Club beat the University squash team, 3 to 2. The match which was played on the Harvard Club's courts was featured with surprises chief among which was the defeat of B. H. Whitbeck '29, captain of the University team by R. W. Reed...
...Hmmm-mm-mp!" hummed Old Dr. Tuffier, admitting defeat...
...Treaty of Ancon (1883), which concluded the War of the Pacific, it was provided that a plebiscite be eventually held in Tacna-Arica, to determine its final sovereignty. The signal diplomatic defeat of the Coolidge Administration has been their failure to arrange the holding of this plebiscite, under the auspices of General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary...