Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...yards in a varsity game three years ago); Rutgers' Pomp Chandler, twinkle-toed Negro who led the little Scarlet through three undefeated seasons; Yale's Dave Boies, who in 1936, before a crowd of 12,000, kicked a last-minute field goal that handed Rutgers its first defeat in four years; Princeton's Buster Bedford, who scored ten touchdowns during the Tigers' all-winning 1938 season...
...Philadelphia, in a fabulous seesawing game, Pennsylvania, sparked by flashy Frank Reagan, came from behind to hand Cornell's terrific Big Red its second defeat of the season...
...recent radio address sponsored by William Allen White's Committee to defend America by Aiding the Allies, President Conant recommended that the United States pledge itself "without reservation" to the defeat of the Nazis...
...Above all we get a clear insight into the struggles of a man whose sympathies and view of life were not those of the dominant forces of his day. And however successful his crusade on behalf of the "Oliver Twists" may seem to us, we see also his personal defeat by the standards and prejudices of his day--the frustration of his thirst for the completeness that love gives to life...
...Boston's Fenway Park, a Boston College team, just as big and fast as Minnesota's but without Minnesota's big-time competition, handed a hardy Georgetown outfit its first defeat in three years. Score...