Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formulas guaranteed to be infallible by such experts as Napoleon or Moltke and perfected by generations of professors in the military art. All this printed accumulation of tactical genius, which ought to have ensured victory in three weeks, turned out to be no less productive of almost immediate defeat - though not car ried to extremes, and, on the whole, pretty equally divided between the combatants. . . . With genuine compunction [the High Command] reckoned its misdeeds, and each day urged itself to greater efforts...
...Crimson's 5 to 3 defeat of St. Nicks, its 8 to 1 trouncing of B. U., and it recent tied series with Princeton showed that it is well able to handle the Eastern members of the League; but it will be slightly underdog when it meets its first Canadian opponent...
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