Word: defeated
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...second team administered a 4-1 defeat to a Brooks team which had been rated about even with the Yardling "B" team on the basis of past performances. According to coach Corey Wynn, this performance over the week-end indicates that the freshmen have developed greatly with regards to depth and should be very hard to beat in coming matches...
Ahead by only four points at the last event, the high jump, the freshman track team scored a sweep to defeat Andover 60 to 48 at Andover Saturday. Burt Lieberman, Don Di Bona, and Cal Keap all cleared 5 feet 8 inches to give the Yardlings a three way tie for first in the high jump...
Still smarting from a totally unexpected 8-1 defeat at the hands of an inspired Navy team last Saturday, the varsity squash team bounced back to trample Penn without the loss of a game...
...fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage of his son Charles, who took the burden of responsibility on himself, saved De Lesseps from the ignominy of jail. But 25 years later the Panama Canal became a reality...
Despite a poor effort in the foil and epee, the Crimson varsity "A" fencing team managed to defeat Trinity College, 17 to 10, in its first appearance Saturday. The freshman squad lost its opening bout with Hopkins Grammar by an identical score...