Word: setback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, while El Caudillo publicly attended victory parades here & there throughout Spain, he was privately attending to internal troubles: > The struggle between monarchists and fascists reappeared, and the royalists received a setback when Minister of Education Pedro Sainz Rodriguez, an ardent monarchist, was dismissed from his post. He was also deprived of his membership in Spain's only political party and of his seat in the national council of the party. Evidently Senor Sainz had urged restoration of the monarchy too emphatically...
...year jinx and whipped the favored Elis 5 to 4 at New Haven Saturday morning. That seems to be the favorite score for Coach Hodder's men, because in the afternoon they bowed 5 to 4 to Williams at New Haven. It was the fourth 5 to 4 setback for the Hoddermen this spring...
Following a slow start the Indians have finally developed into a team that may be capable of successfully defending its league title. But after the sloppy play of the Indian nine Tuesday in administering Yale its second setback, the Green is not so confident as they were when they defeated Yale in a ten inning game a week ago and then won their first decision since 1926 over Holy Cross on the following...
...first four men named handed St. John's College a next 0 to 0 setback, and with the help of Lou Roswer and Dickerman trimmed Boston University 0 1/2 to 2 1/2 in a six-man encounter. Then came successive defeats, and equally tough to take, of 5 to 4 at the hands of Bowdoln and Amherst...
Last week champions of culture received a severe setback when Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy, an opera enthusiast who prides himself on his florid literary style, came out with a blast against liberal college educations for physicians. "The ritual of education is devouring our youth," he told members of the New York Neurological Society. Training in a liberal arts college only "imposes infantilism" on a prospective medical student. Such training does not teach students to think scientifically for "the collection of credits in courses of oddments" can be gained by "agglutination of the tail to a wooden bench...