Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were some crushing defeats. The 18-51 barrage leveled by Brown is the worst defeat McCurdy can remember. The Bruins, led by Bob Lowe, ran wild against the Crimson, who just managed to tie Cornell for last place. Later, in the fall's climactic encounter, Yale outscored the varsity, 26 to 48 by three-way scoring...
Ironically, one of the team's really fine efforts of the year came in defeat. In wet, miserable weather at Hanover, the Crimsan staged a rally that almost caught the favored Dartmouth squad. Fitzgerald, running on a severely injured leg, took second behind the Big Green's Tom Laris. However, this performance finished him for the season with an inflamed Achilles tendon...
Soviet proposals make it clear that the United States will not get full cooperation until it abandons its attemps to defeat Communism and accepts the challenge of competition. Unless Americans abandon their conceit that refusing to trade with Communists will prove the superiority of capitalism, the Soviets will suspect, quite rightly, that cultural exchange is only a hollow gesture toward co-existence...
...Cornell wins, the Crimson must share third place with not only Yale but also the Big Red. If Penn wins, the Crimson can claim to be the only team to be able to beat the Quakers, and for the second straight year will be the only League team to defeat the Ivy champion. IVY FOOTBALL STANDINGS W L T PF PA Pennsylvania 5 1 0 119 39 Dartmouth 5 1 1 76 40 Harvard 4 3 0 121 73 Yale 4 3 0 118 95 Cornell 3 3 0 64 87 Princeton 3 4 0 76 82 Brown...
...barrios, the impoverished rural villages where an avalanche of government money proved helpful. By week's end the Nacionalistas seemed certain to elect five Senators-including Ramon Magsaysay's younger brother, Genaro, who, on the strength of his name, was running right behind Liberal Marcos. Although the defeat of handpicked Candidate Pajo suggested that a good many Filipinos had had their fill of Carlos Garcia, the Nacionalista Party as a whole had apparently profited from one cynical popular argument: "The mosquitoes inside the mosquito net have grown fat sucking your blood, and maybe they'll be satisfied...