Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Number three man Sam Seager fired a one-under-par 35 on the first nine, and copped medal honors with a 73 as he trounced Columbia's George Buchbard, 8 and 7. In the number one spot, Captain Bob Matson shot a 75 to defeat Leo Daggett, 3 and 1 Doug Wilde squeezed out a one-up victory over Bob Lorenz...
Boston College capitalized to two errors, a triple, and a wild pitch in the tenth inning yesterday afternoon to score three times and hand Stuffy McInnis' nine its third defeat in four games, by an 8 to 5 score. In doing this, the Eagles swept the two-game "city series" between the teams and once again deprived ace righthander lra Godin of his first win of the season...
...ancient times, the Hindu legend goes, the 330 million angels were as mortal as man. The angels discovered that they could defeat death by drinking the divine nectar which was kept in the Kumbh (holy urn). They fought a full-scale war with the demons for possession of the Kumbh, and won. As the angels flew triumphantly to heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with...
Churchill has plaited into this book a whole fistful of narrative threads. It was a year of almost continuous desert warfare, of disaster in Greece and Crete, of crippling losses to U-boats, of devastating blitz, of almost unbroken defeat. What is much more remarkable than their coherent presentation is Churchill's astonishing grasp of innumerable and vastly complex situations as they arose and developed. The greatness of his leadership has never been better documented...
Exeter has almost the same squad that handed last year's Yardling tennis team its worst defeat, but Corey Wynn hopes to even the score tomorrow when the freshmen travel to New Hampshire...