Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity football team won its first game of the 1949 season yesterday by coming from behind in the second half to defeat Holy, Cross, 22 to 14, before 19,000 Stadium eye-witnesses...
...political hold which Curley has kept over Boston has been a very strange thing; losing as many times as he has won the race for mayor, he can hardly be called invincible. Yet after every defeat, when his opponents predicted the end of bossism in Boston, Curley has displayed remarkable resiliency and come back to win again. One reason undoubtedly is that he leaves the city in such a poor financial condition when he is defeated that the burden of reform overwhelms the next mayor. The two men that shared the mayoralty with him during the Twenties, Malcolm E. Nichols...
...Lowell House football squad scored its first triumph of the '49 season yesterday when it came from behind to overpower a hapless Dunster eleven, 19 to 6. It was the Funsters' fourth straight defeat...
...first to reach the Pole, for Amundsen's Norwegian flag is already planted there. It is much to Frend's credit that John Mills, who plays Scott, and Derck Bond, Reginald Beckwith and Harold Warrender, as other members of the expedition, play their parts as men who can take defeat quietly and then move on to the next task at hand. Mills, in the same spirit, plays Scott with great honesty and authenticity...
...most crushing defeat President Truman has yet taken on a nomination...