Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson tennis players took off at the crack of dawn today bound for Brunswick, Maine, and a match with Bowdoin. The team is hoping rainclouds will keep away and give them a chance to defeat the Bowdoin unit, which escaped last year when a storm halted played with Harvard ahead...
...days and still much too large for the city's needs. They passed the two-story, yellow brick building at 1908 Main, where Old Tom Pendergast's greedy fingers had pulled the strings. The lights there were still on ; Jim Pendergast's men were measuring their defeat...
...nine years since Old Tom went to prison for cheating the income-tax collector of $443,550, his machine has had only one victory worth crowing about: its defeat, demanded by Harry Truman, of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter in 1946's Democratic primary. A fortnight ago, oldtime Pendergastlies celebrated a minor victory: eight Pendergast machinemen were acquitted of vote-fraud charges (on which the Star had gathered the evidence) growing out of the 1946 primary. In a year of trials, only four of 39 accused had been pronounced guilty...
...injuries spelled the real cause of defeat. Within five minutes after the game opened, Joe Eaton, in blocking a punt, caught a Princeton kicker's foot squarely in his stomach. Although he came back to play in the second half, he was in poor shape, and that night was taken to the Royal Army hospital for treatment. A few minutes after Eaton was carried off the field, Hunt Mauran had his jaw broken, but he played out the remainder of the first half. Only that evening did an x-ray show the break, and the Harvard squad found itself minus...
Both Army and Navy fell in defeat at the hands of the tennis squad during the Spring recess. Consistent play by the bottom half of the singles division enabled the team to inflict a 7 to 2 defeat on the Cadets and an 8 to 1 licking on the Middies...