Word: setback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invading team from Hanover has a clean season record except for one setback at the hands of Goddard Seminary. The single defeat came last Saturday when the school team got the long end of a 5 to 3 score...
...busy baseball week will get under way on Soldiers Field diamond this afternoon at 4 o'clock, when the University players meet a visiting Bowdoin nine. The Brunswick, college comes fresh from a string of favorable decisions and with a determination to avenge the setback which it received last year...
...hoped that the weather will be fair, but even in case of rain no further postponement will be made, declare the Senior authorities, wroth at the double setback their plans have already received...
After a week's inaction since its southern trip due to an unsympathetic weather man, the University baseball team will take the field at 3 o'clock this afternoon against an invading nine from Amherst. The visiting team is fresh from New Haven, where it experienced a disappointing setback but comes with an expectation of turning the tables this afternoon...
...month ago, liquidation in the grain and security markets became pronounced, after an optimistic winter of steadily advancing prices. The question arose as to the real significance of the March setback in the speculative markets. Some held it to be the "peak" of a major business cycle. Others considered it merely a temporary readjustment of speculative dreams to hard realities, and thus a movement of secondary importance...