Word: setback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tables in the next game by taking the University court man into camp by a 15-16 score. Thacher took the third game, but dropped the fourth by the same count. In the fifth round he steadied down to take the game and match. The team suffered its first setback of the afternoon when Gammell swept Stewart to defeat. Oliver made up for this by defeating Gardner easily at 15-13, 15-10 and 15-12. Dupertuls will play Bright this afternoon in the final session of the match. The "B" quintet will play its final match of the season...
...second game of the 1930 season. Stung by a 6 to 0 defeat at the hands of Andover last week, the Freshmen are intent on avenging on Exeter the doings of its rival. Exeter, on the other hand will be out to erase last year's 15-0 setback...
...former National Leaguer, I am inclined to pick the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series," was the statement made last night by Coach Mitchell of the University baseball team when interviewed concerning his views on the Series. "Today's game was an unfortunate setback, but I still have my faith pinned on the Cards. Had Pennock lost yesterday, it would have all been over except the shouting. I expect Alexander to come through with another brilliant victory...
Trippers just home from Europe, bubbling over with news of how fast the taxicabs go in Paris and how hard it is to buy good cigarets in England, received a sorry setback, and their envious friends a flush of joy, upon opening the September number of McCall's magazine and there reading an article by the daughter of Chief Justice Taft, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr College. "It is estimated," estimated Mrs. Manning, "that nearly 500,000 Americans have crossed the Atlantic this summer. ... I should be the last to question the benefits or the delights...
...spite of this overwhelming setback, one cannot but have faith in the smoke-wreathed banners of nicotine. Even now, if some chic, Parisian expert were to devise a feminine form of pipe to replace the grandmotherly corncob, one might safely wager that it would find universal favor with the gentler sex. And a charming smoking jacket should clinch the victory. If pioneer wives were willing to smoke corncobs an the chimney, surely their descend-ants can not be averse to a more civilized form of fumigation. Since the cigarette unsupported is achieving womanly progress, one can expect an artistic pipe...