Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comparative scores offer no basis for forecast, since the Elis topped Dartmouth, the team that handed the Crimson its most recent defeat. In other games the Harvard and Yale freshmen have both beaten Brown and Exeter, and both bowed to Andover in their season's openers...
...Republicans were defeated but they are not beaten, and it is for each of us in the ranks to determine our own contributions to the necessary revival. If individually and collectively we display both energy and imagination in the four lean years ahead, then 1952 can in fact be the year of liberation from the selfish and unprincipled mediocrity of the present democratic rule. We lost in 1948 because we deserved nothing more than defeat. Now we have four years to mend our ways, to support new leaders and a new program of an articulate and creative party of enlightened...
...teams were tied with six wins and one defeat each as they completed their seaesons last Friday, but voted yesterday to fight it out for the top spot. Straus Trophy points for first and second places will be divided between the Deacons and the Mastodons regardless of who wins today, giving each 92 1/2 points...
Georgia Tech's pony backfield slipped and slithered in the mud at Atlanta, and fell before Tennessee, 13-6. It was Tech's first 1948 defeat. In a drizzling rain, North Carolina's undefeated Tar Heels (rated No. 3 in the nation) were held to a 7-7 tie by underdog William & Mary...
President Truman had thundered about the "privileged Wall Street gluttons." The "gluttons" last week looked more like frightened rabbits. As the G.O.P. defeat* became certain early Wednesday, panicky stockholders jammed the wires with orders to brokers to sell. By the time the New York Stock Exchange opened at 10 a.m., sell orders so far exceeded buy orders that initial transactions on many key stocks were delayed for as long as three hours...