Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...close, well-played battle Friday afternoon, Yale's blue-clad booters throw Harvard's Varsity soccer team down to a 2 to 0 defeat in the climax of both teams' seasons. This was the first time in four years that the Elis have topped the Carrmen...
...squad, despite its final defeat, finished the season with a fairly successful record of four victories, three losses, and two deadlocks. The fact that six of the starting lineup will graduate this June leaves only mild hope for improvement next season...
...Another defeat marred the weekend when Trumbull College eked out a 6-4 victory over Kirkland in a wild and closely contested game. The Deacons started with a bang, pushing over their first touchdown on the second play, but began to go down hill in the second half under the adoption of a man-to-man defense system by Yale. The closing period featured a free for all from which them Elis garnered the winning points in a razzle-dazzle passing orgy...
...buying power of the laboring man is increased, and the living standard raised, the most basic and constructive step is taken towards the prevention of home-grown communism or fascism-a step worth more than a thousand investigations by the F.B.I. or Martin Dies. A defense program used to defeat the efforts of the largest and truest group of defenders in the nation can be nothing but sheer travesty, can do little but open the doors to those very forces against which our defense is aimed...
...Premier Molotov left Berlin the British Foreign Office confessed to another diplomatic defeat. On Oct. 22, British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps had presented a note to the Kremlin offering a promise never to attack Russia, a guarantee of Russian participation in World War II's peace treaty and, ironically, de facto recognition of Russia's absorption of the Baltic States.* Britain asked in return only "a more benevolent attitude." Joseph Stalin's reply had been to send Comrade Molotov to Berlin...