Word: set-back
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What chance the old Managing Board has to recoup its set-back it is hard to discover. They still have an oar in officially, and sources associated with the "outs" say the situation is far from settled and predict a renewal of the fight this fall, with a possibility of two rival Specs...
...shout down its own rain barrel persistently in an attempt to justify sloppy half-hearted football with a lace collar of gothic-tower dignity. There is the gentlemanly nonsense which leads a Harvard man to beaming play patty-cake over the fact that although the season was one big set-back, "after all, we did beat Yale." The Dartmouth
...grapplers received their second set-back in a row, Saturday, when they lost to slightly favored Princeton, 21 to 13, in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Axis push into the Balkans which continues even with the temporary Italian set-back, the numerous agreements signed during the past few weeks with like minded or weaker states, the nightly bombings of enemy cities, and the increased Japanese pressure, on Indo China and the East Indies, certainly do not constitute a stalemate. This is movement, and movement on the whole favorable to the Axis Powers...
Plans for an undergraduate drill corps received a severe set-back last night when the Student Council went on record as being opposed to "any form of military drill with the exception of a possible expansion of the R.O.T.C...