Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday, Jan. 13. After the last two Presidents left the U. S. there came, soon after their returns, defeat to one, Death to the other. Superstition, however, was not a passenger on the Coolidge Special...
...frail, delicate, serious, Lord Halifax could read in the encyclical the defeat of a lifetime's labor. It had been his idea, as it was the idea of many English high-churchmen and laymen, that the Church of England, which does not recognize itself as protestant in the sense for example of Lutheran, Methodist, or Presbyterian Churches, might be ready to amalgamate itself with the Roman Church. Certainly, for the last century, some members of the Anglican Church have tended more and more to recognize certain Roman Catholic tenets. At the Lambeth Conference, in 1920, English clergymen stated their willingness...
Still smarting from the stings of defeat in last Wednesday's encounter with Cushing Academy, the Freshman basketball team will go into the game with St. John's Academy today determined to win. The contest will be played at 4 o'clock in the Freshman Gymnasium. With three straight victories to its credit the Blue and White team promises to be a formidable opponent for the first year...
...credit since the Christmas recess, the University basketball team will go into the game tonight with Rhode Island State College determined to continue its winning streak. Neither coach of the teams predicts what the probable outcome of the contest will be, but Harvard's three recent victories and a defeat for Rhode Island by Springfield College indicates that the University quintet will be the starting favorite. The contest will be staged at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...victory and a defeat were the results of the University basketball games yesterday. The University's quintet defeated the Trinity basketball team by a score of 51 to 26 last night in Hemenway Gymnasium in a game that was marked by numerous substitutions and much roughness. Just before this game was played the Freshman team suffered its first defeat of the year when it fell at the small end of a 28 to 19 score in its contest with Cushing Academy in the Freshman Gymnasium...