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Word: defeats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers took an eight game wining streak into this contest, their last defeat coming last year to the Crimson at Harvard Stadium, 7 to 6. The overall record for the series is 27 wins for Princeton against 16 for the Crimson, with five ties...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: TIGERS DOWN CRIMSON, 35-20 | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

With the Lowell defeat, Winthrop took a one-half game lead in the intramural league. Until a decision is handed down on a protested game between Kirkland and Dunster last week, the Funsters' rating is not definite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 11/7/1956 | See Source »

...prophet among many and gave him a few brief pages in the Koran. Even today Moslems refuse to consider Christianity a monotheistic faith because of this early misreading of Christ. Nor could Mohammed, for whom it was unthinkable that God would let his prophet suffer ignominy and defeat at the hands of his detractors, accept Christ's immolation: crucifixion was no proper fate for a prophet. So Moslem tradition holds that someone, perhaps Judas, took Christ's place on the Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encounter with Islam | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...half, mighty Michigan State had turned two recovered fumbles deep in Illinois territory into touchdowns, and led by 13-0. The capacity homecoming crowd at Champaign sat glumly waiting for Michigan State to turn on its second-half drive and send Illinois to its fourth straight defeat. They had not counted on a spring-legged Negro right halfback named Abe Woodson, who also happens to be co-holder of the world 50-yard indoor high-hurdle record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Test for the Leaders | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Thus, with this reasoning, Harvard should defeat Princeton and Yale, and lose to Brown, just as it won its "big" games against Cornell and Dartmouth, while losing on alternate Saturdays to Tufts and Columbia...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Penn Eleven Outplays Crimson, 28-14 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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