Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long after most congressional votes around the country had been counted and analyzed. House seats in three scattered districts still hung in balance. Last week, as the tabulation in each shifted from home votes to stacks of absentee ballots, incumbent Congressmen who seemed doomed to defeat were hoisted back into their seats on the shoulders of servicemen, students and traveling constituents. Items...
Crimson fans who watched their team go down to defeat today at least had the satisfaction of feeling that no undue trickery was involved...
Although Harvard went down to defeat today, the avid Crimson fan can seek solace in the pages of history...
...Globe said: "Never before in a big game has the winning team played the better football in every department of the game or the loser been so helpless to stave off an overwhelming defeat. It was the worst beating the Blue ever has experienced at Harvard's hands and it was a beating which was administered with an exhibition of superior play that was simply overwhelming...
...early morning crowd of 12 saw the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa team avenge its last year's defeat with a 24 to 6 triumph over the Yale PBK team...