Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Jack Carr's soccer team went down to defeat at the hands of an undefeated Springfield eleven Saturday afternoon by a 2 to 1 score as the Gymnasts refused to be stopped in their march towards the New England crown...
...amount of rationalization can defeat the conclusion that stripped of its sophistry the reason for the denial of permission to Browder is because his political views are repugnant to the officials of Harvard University, as they are to most people in the United States...
...game of the day will be the Kirkland-Winthrop grudge battle. Although the Big Red won the title, come victory or defeat today, it would give them no end of happiness to get revenge on the Deacons for the post-season tie which they suffered at their hands last year and which lost them the title...
...Thank you all, good people, for the support you have given me," Mike told his friends. "You have seen the low, mean things which that man Willy Flanagan would stoop to in order to defeat me. We have won in spite...
This book is a sequel to The Sword in the Stone, shows faintbrained, sweet-natured King Arthur confronted with the first problems of his position: how, with horn-rimmed Merlyn's help, to defeat rebellious kings; how to enlist Might in the cause of Right. Half-fantasy, half-burlesque, like its predecessor it mixes wisecracks and Morte d'Arthur, scrambles legend and topical satire. While her husband King Lot is away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza...