Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again, there is Hoover, the amateur in politics,--the ingenue among the curly wolves. It may be true that in 1920 Hoover was content to trust his preconvention campaign to as fine a group of mechanical engineers, prize orators, and textbook authors as were ever lost in a wilderness of politics. But that...
Lowden led the field on some of the early ballots in the Republican convention, but thereafter faded rapidly, as the risks of carrying the onus of the Lowden campaign budget became increasingly self-evident. Beyond reproach on the score of private honor. Lowden saw the nomination lost because the honor of his candidacy was in dispute...
Since this would never be printed in the Alumni Bulletin, I send it with the hope that you can print it as my humble opinion of a battle lost as well as poorly fought. Perhaps I am precocious as an alumnus...
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...University fencing team defeated Syracuse, 10 to 7, Saturday afternoon at Hemenway Gymnasium. The University swordsmen won the foils, 7 to 2, the epee matches, 3 to 1, but lost with the sabre, 4 to 0. Captain C. B. Hollister '29 proved to be the outstanding swordsman of the meet, winning all three of his foils matches...