Word: set-back
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...Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his trusty aides, John Clynes, "Jimmy" Thomas and others. The reason for this is probably the General Strike, undertaken against the ad- vice of the moderates, which not only dealt them a hard blow in the sense that it gave industry an unparalleled set-back and robbed them of full-time employment, but virtually bankrupted the Trades Union organizations throughout the country...
...University team will be composed of J. Whitbeck, Gordon, Lenhart, B. Whitbeck, Appleton, and Thompson in the order given. The Crimson tennis team has been successful in almost all of its encounters this spring, an 8 to 1 defeat at the hands of Williams being the only set-back it has suffered in college ranks...
...Klan, however, is just beginning. Politics for several years to come will probably be shot through with the Klan issue. All the wiser for this set-back, the Klan will be even more skilful in the future; and the country will do well to keep the example of Facismo in mind, with all its attendant phenomena of press censorship, interference with local authority, and rule by a bigoted and militant minority...
...wife was a daughter of the King and Queen of Rumania and one of the King's brothers-in-law was the King of Yugo-Slavia. Queen Marie of Rumania had cleverly set the stage for strong Balkan alliance. It was natural, after the republican "doings" in Greece, that the friendship of Yugo-Slavia and Greece cooled and the Balkan alliance received a severe set-back...
...Roosevelts-Kermit and Theordore Jr.-who had planned to make an incursion into Turkestan to hunt wild animals for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME, Mar. 16), suffered a set-back in their plans because the Viceroy of India objected that a large Swedish party had already gone through Hunza Pass and had taken nearly all of the available native carriers. Permission is to be sought to use another pass through the Himalayas to Turkestan and the Pamir region...