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Word: defeats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston College's freshman basketball team edged the Yardlings, 51 to 50, yesterday afternoon in the Boston Garden. This was the first defeat for Coach Lloyd Wilson's squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BC Squeaks Past Yard Five, 51-50 | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

...about turning some of the rooms into classrooms (as it is now, no classes are held at the Center; groups are brought over from time to time to use the facilities) but this would destroy the informality. By the same taken, any "expansion" of the present setup would defeat the purpose of the Center...

Author: By Petter B. Taub, | Title: Now in Fourth Year, Modern Language Center Mixes Scholarship with Informal Atmosphere | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...approved the U.S.British-sponsored resolution listing twelve "essentials" for peace and international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 21). Then, by a similar margin, the Assembly rejected the rival Russian resolution proposing a phony non-aggression pact among the big powers and smearing the Western nations as warmongers. The vote meant total defeat for the Russians' major effort at the current Assembly session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Rebuff | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...most telling index of Red defeat was the fact that even the staffs of the Communist Unita and the left-wing Socialist Avanti went to work to put out their papers, after it became apparent that other papers in Italy would publish on schedule. The Reds had boasted that during the strike no papers at all would hit the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Flop | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...good, he blandly says, that not a single member of Notre Dame's current glamour team could make his starting eleven. They were 1948 National Football League champions and are well on their way to repeating this season. This week, with a record of nine wins and one defeat, Greasy's nifty Eagles squared off against an old and bitter foe, the New York Giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagles at Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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