Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army major in World War I, he moved to Denver in 1919 and accepted the post of head researcher at the National Jewish Hospital (for poor T.B. patients). He has spent the last 30 years in his cluttered office and spotless laboratories trying to find ways to outmaneuver and defeat the tubercle bacillus. Still bright-eyed and vigorous but looking something like a fugitive from a Stanley Steamer, Dr. Corper wears a grey peaked cap and an oldfashioned, ankle-length canvas duster with note-stuffed pockets...
...foreign power, it is aggression. This is a difficult borderline doctrine. Another problem is to strike the essential balance in channelling European economy between recovery and rearment. A major purpose of the Pact is to relieve small nations of overburdening war expenditure. It would be disastrous if Pact Mutual defeat plans induced an african spirt which overshadowed recovery...
...informal Harvard polo team ended the indoor season on a glorious note of triumph Saturday night in New Haven's riding academy, as they galloped from behind in the fourth and final chukker to defeat the Yale J.V. squad, 12 to 10. The poloists had to score five goals in the last minutes to pull out their upset...
Some of these chinks in the Western armor were exaggerated. Others were real. The Atlantic pact was a crashing diplomatic defeat for world Communism, but of itself it would not strike at the roots of Communist power nor guarantee the anti-Communist world against attacks. Rather, the pact was a recognition of danger and a resolution to build common defenses. The very achievement of an Atlantic pact underlined the failure to build an Asiatic defense against Communism...
...class will be the third in a series of annual inter-city basketball games under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee. Twenty-seven Boston boys will make the trip, every one of them out for revenge for the double defeat suffered by Boston teams in last year's games held here...