Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennis matches saw Kirkland defeat Lowell, 4 to 1, and Winthrop beat Adams...
Loudly and vehemently Dennis disclaimed Browderism, of which he had been one of the loudest mouthpieces when Browderism was the party line. He told the comrades: in their zeal to defeat Hitler, he and the other chieftains around headquarters had "dragged at the tail end of Roosevelt . . . did not adequately maintain our own Communist identity and vanguard role." This is the sin now known, in the Aesopian doubletalk of communism, as "tailism." Browder, said Dennis, was still hypnotized by his "original opportunist illusions." But Dennis' eyes had been opened. To the barricades...
...trying to get exactly what they want so there will be no constitution at all. Even if the Allies give in to the Social Democrats the action would antagonize the Christian Democrats and result only in another deadlock. If the Bonn council does fail it will be a major defeat for the Western powers who have committed themselves to a German State, and the Germans and Russians know it--perhaps too well...
Once again, the Crimson's impotency at the plate led to defeat. Stuffy Mclnnis' men knocked only three of Matt Formon's pitches out of the infield and those were their three hits. Cliff Crosby and Captain Walt Coulson stroked singles to center field and Hal Moffle blasted a triple to right for Harvard's only hits...
Like most Methodist ministers at the turn of the century, Virginia's young (36) James Cannon Jr. was dedicated to the defeat of the Demon Rum. Gaunt and black-bearded, humorless and generally disliked, he licked alcohol by legislation in his native state (1914), did as much as any man to bring prohibition to the U.S. Like many of his contemporaries who believed that morality could be legislated, he periodically struck out at lesser demons. Dancing, tobacco, Coca-Cola and even football ("neither manly nor Christian") felt his indignant lash. But in 1930, this paragon of virtue, by then...