Word: setback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, a setback in the Balkans would be more than Germany's first outright military defeat in World War II. It would be the turning point...
...only on the strength of their 55 to 20 win over the Ulenmen last year and their 53 to 22 victory over Princeton last week, the Elis can be rated prohibitive favorites to overwhelm the Crimson finners by sheer power tonight. Princeton gave Harvard its only setback of the year in the meet at Tigertown several weeks...
Yale's talented hockey team concluded the Crimson's season in decisive style Saturday night in the Boston Garden when it administered a thumping 8 to 2 setback to the Harvard six. A week previous in New Haven the Elis had done the same thing by an identical score...
...Trophy for the second year in a row. During the Christmas vacation they attracted considerable attention by humbling mighty Minnesota, purportedly the best team in the West, and returned home in a very confident frame of mind. Little Williams upset the apple cart by administering the Bulldogs a decisive setback in, of all places, their New Haven stronghold. Since that time the Elis have been beaten by Princeton and tied by Dartmouth in League competition...
...major setback has occured, however, in that Captain Bruce Richardson is still on probation and therefore out for the season. Richardson, a top-notch wrestler, had hoped to be eligible after mid-years and had been practising right along with the rest of the team. Jim Higgins, now recovered from his wrenched shoulder, will continue to fill the 136-pound vacancy...