Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's first victory over Yale in the Stadium came in 1913, when Charlie Brickley kicked five field goals to defeat the Blue, 15 to 5, and completed his feat of scoring all Harvard's points on its way to the Big Three championship...
Brown's hopes for the Ivy title ended with this defeat. The only team with a shot left at the Crimson is the Yale eleven, which gave up the League lead by bowing to Princeton, 1 to 0. The Elis confront the varsity Friday in the championship showdown. The Ivy crown, an NCAA bid and the honor of victory in the traditional series will ride on the outcome...
After he asked several times for permission to lose, his defeat (by Mrs. Vivienne Nearing) was arranged. He won $120,000, and a $50,000-a-year...
...asked him to let me go on the program honestly, without receiving help. He said that was impossible. I would not have a chance to defeat Stempel. He also told me that giving help to quiz contestants was a common practice and merely a part of show business. Perhaps I wanted to believe him. He also stressed the fact that by appearing on a nationally televised program, I would be doing a great service to the intellectual life, to teachers and to education in general by increasing public respect...
...William Langer, 73, fiery oddball Republican Senator from North Dakota (since 1940); in Washington. A harddriving, hell-raising nonconformist who chewed unlighted cigars in their cellophane wrappers, baffled poll takers and battled all the harder when downed by defeat. "Wild Bill'' Langer was a hired farm hand at 15, a lawyer at 20, a Columbia University liberal arts graduate at 24, a county prosecutor at 28. Defeated for Governor in 1920 and for attorney general in 1928, he ran again in 1932, won the governorship, then got nabbed for conspiracy (forcing federal workers to contribute to his campaign...