Word: set-back
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...Freshman hockey team will attempt to hand the Dartmouth 1928 aggregation its first set-back of the season when the two outfits meet in the Arena this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock...
Forecast. That the Communists will receive a set-back was accepted as a foregone conclusion. The economic condition of Germany is better than it was in May (date of the last elections) ; there are more contented people and contented people are usually enemies of Communism...
Starting the season with a successful spring trip and continuing through the year with only an occasional set-back, the University tennis team came through a difficult schedule of matches with a record of eight victories and only three defeats. Had it not been for the reverse suffered at the hands of Yale, this season might be remembered for one of the most praiseworthy in the history of tennis at Harvard...
...defeat at the hands of Georgetown compares unfavorably even with the 8 to 4 set-back the Southerners handed to the Crimson. The Bowdoin nine split even with the Bates outfit, losing a well-played game, 3 to 2, and winning a heavy batting orgy, 10 to 9. The last game was with Colby, another slug fest with four runs in the ninth giving the Bowdoin team...
Primaries proceed apace. The great adventure last week was the Wisconsin Democratic primary. There Governor Al Smith of New York took victory away from William G. McAdoo. It was Mr. McAdoo's first serious set-back in a primary vote. Governor Smith had made no purposeful campaign, and pointed out that he had never had official notification that his name was entered. But Smith had the reputation of being a Wet; McAdoo is a well known Dry; and Milwaukee is famous...