Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conant's faith and persistency 'when others faltered, his determination that American science must not fail in a field in which German science might succeed, that carried the project through periods of apparent defeat to the ultimate triumph...
Normally, the Democratic candidate in Tennessee would be a shoo-in. But this year, the defeat of boss Ed Crump's machine has split the party into bitter halves, and the Republicans have coincidentally emerged with one of the most dubiously-colorful attractions to grace GOP politics in the South since Reconstruction days. This character is Roy ("Ah don't know nothin' about polities"). Acuff, the Bing Crosby of commercial hillbillyism, whose nasal crooning and asserted stunts have drawn huge crowds all over the state. Acuff is running for governor on the GOP ticket, but his immense popularity may drag...
...hard to see why. The Sky Is Red is a perfect reflection of the numbness beyond despair felt by a people still suffering from the results of dictatorship and defeat. Indifferent to the larger issues of the war, Berto writes only about its limited consequences in the lives of a few children...
HANOVER, October 24--The Daily Dartmouth hotshots hare-footed it back to the New Hampshire woods today with only their join cloths and wampum belts left from Saturday's crushing defeat to the CRIMSON...
...Harvard Teachers Union (AFL) voted unanimous support last week to the campaign to defeat "anti-labor" referenda 5, 6, and 7 on the Massachusetts ballot. The proposed bills would ban the union shop, require a majority union vote before striking, and call for annual election of union officers...