Word: set-back
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Harvard swimming experienced a big let down in the year 1939 from the glories that were 1937 and 1938 when upstart Brown passed out a 38 to 37 set-back to the Ulenmen, Princeton carried off a 45 to 30 decision in Brokaw Pool, and Yale pinned another 45 to 30 defeat on the Crimson in Cambridge...
Once more in 1914-18 British sea power choked and starved a combination of great continental empires, and Britain was at it again last week. But sea power may suffer many a set-back before the final conclusion...
...suddenly bristled with charges that Britain sought another Munich agreement. This time it would be between five big powers, with the U. S. included, the U. S. S. R. not. Why had hypocritical Mr. Chamberlain sent this Riley man to Danzig without even consulting Parliament? "Signs of a serious set-back to the attempt to get Russia into the peace pact front have to be recorded today," Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye cabled the New York Times. He could scarcely have expected how momentously right and wrong he was to be proved in the next 48 hours...
...Only New Deal agency to receive any set-back from the Court this term was NLRB, which was told it had overstepped its powers in the Fansteel and Consolidated Edison cases...
...being used as doormats by registering a 6 to 3 victory over the Big Red of Cornell in their first League clash. While the Ithacans aren't exactly world-beaters yet, they aren't rated as pushovers either. Coach Doc Cariss and his boys received a 8 to 2 set-back at the hands of the Dartmouth Indians last Thursday, but this was to be expected because the defending champion Indians have class-aplenty on their mound staff...