Word: setback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fearing repetition of the dreadful setback thorough-breeding suffered during World War I, owners of laboriously trained hunting and shooting dogs and breeders of show dogs sent many of their prize specimens to Australia, Canada and the U. S. Last week many U. S. dog lovers were helping keep British hounds' noses keen, setters' coats shiny, poodles' hindquarters plucked. In Nashville, Tenn., Spur Oil Co.'s President Mason Houghland has begun regularly to hunt twelve and a half couples from the pack - famed for their hybrid Welsh traits of nose, voice, homeliness - of Master...
...this informal setback does not make the atmosphere any brighter, after the unimpressive victory over Brown. Since the B.U. match scheduled for Wednesday was postponed until next Tuesday, the Foil Composition was the week's only indication of how the team has been shaping up. Seton Hall, tomorrow afternoon, will be no pushover; that is certain
...their editor, reporters and copy boys on the San Francisco News voiced the general sentiment of San Francisco: "PLEASE, BOSS, LET'S NOT HAVE ANOTHER STRIKE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME." Settlement of the strike gave C.I.O.'s mighty little Longshoreman Harry Bridges the first real setback he has had since he rose to power with the San Francisco general strike...