Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impressive record of the Freshman soccer team was reduced to an average level yesterday by a hard-fighting Dartmouth eleven which cuffed the Yardlings, 2 to 0, at Hanover. It was the first defeat of the year for the Crimson...
Some of the freshest, as well as some of the stalest, writing in U.S. newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...life, there is misery as well as happiness, failure no less than success; and an education which equips us for only one side of life is certainly inadequate," writes Demos. "Life is competitive; as in sports, one man's victory is another man's defeat; there is not enough in the way of wealth, position, and honor to go around. Somebody is bound to lose...
...rest of Young Washington is chiefly the story of George's effort to fight a nightmarish war against able enemies, with insufficient men and supplies. Freeman's accounts of Washington's volunteer trip to warn the French away from the Ohio, the disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity and the slaughter of Braddock's army are easily the soundest and most complete in print...
After hopefully holding the favored Cadet junior varsity to one touchdown through the first three periods of play, the Jayvee aerial attack shattered into a fourth quarter boomerang that produced a 32 to nothing defeat...