Word: overthrew
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Last Saturday the powerful Fordham nine tore into the Holy Cross players and overthrew them for their first defeat in nine games. The University combination has not been defeated by a college nine...
...Hungary, to make way for Communism. For example, he caused to be exhibited to children in the public schools a cinema depicting persons of opposite sex in promiscuous conjunction. Other and more violent phases of the "Red Terror" gave Hungarians such a sickening belly-full of Communism that they overthrew the Kun regime by a "White Terror" and constitute today the most conservative if not reactionary nation in Europe...
...issue of William Howard Taft, the measure was passed in the U. S. Congress by a combination of Democratic and Republican votes and injured President Taft with many members of his own party. The President's victory was then made to appear somewhat futile when the Canadians overthrew the Laurier Liberal government, which supported the reciprocity movement...
...leader of the insurgent, if any Senator can be called such, now that "Old Bob" LaFollette is dead. From the farm Mr. Norris went through teaching and the law to Congress. In 1910 his fame burst like a Nebraskan sunflower when he led the fight in the House that overthrew the dictatorship of Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (TIME, Nov. 22). Since 1913 he has been in the Senate. He admits no Republican or Democratic or third party prejudices; no mind but his own controls his booming voice. This autumn he swung into Pennsylvania to herald the campaign of William Bauchop...
...fourteen-year-old Prince Otto, son of the late Karl I, last ruling Habsburg Emperor (reigned 1916-1918). But "Little Otto" is not favored by many Hungarian nobles, both because of his youth and because the Allies might not stomach the restoration of the very prince whose father they overthrew. From this and other technical causes† many Hungarians have turned to the shrewd youthful Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 29, as their candidate for the Throne. The Archduke is only a third cousin once removed* of the late Emperor Karl I, and therefore has no "rights of succession...