Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Lamar's Freshman football team will be coming up from the floor of a 39 to 0 defeat at the hands of BU last work when it meets Dartmouth tomorrow at the Stadium in the only local college gridiron entertainment of the weekend...
Richter called exams a mass-production method of evaluation and warned that "the pressures produced by administrative needs may defeat the fundamental purposes of education...
...fine record of service to the poor and working people of Boston. We cannot support the belief that Herter's foreign policy achievements "should be enough to offset domestic conservatism on election day." Rather, if these are his most important achievements, they are more than valid bases for his defeat. Harvard Committee for Wallace
...main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...
Betwixt & Between. Frankfurt has invited several anti-Nazi professors back from U.S. exile, but has no course aimed specifically at eliminating Nazi thinking habits. The disillusionment of defeat, says Hallstein, has made most students thoroughly cynical about propaganda and Shulung (indoctrination) of any kind. Says Hallstein: "It would be absolutely the thing that would not have any effect...