Word: setbacks
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...upset the plan for one simple reason: surprise had been achieved. The Norwegians, trusting, law-abiding, were completely disorganized; and it was six days before the Allies were able to land even territorial troops at any point south of Narvik. In the interval Falkenhorst recovered from his one serious setback. When the Allied Fleet and planes finally got busy...
More solidly entrenened in first place than ever, Cornell today is the only undefeated team in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League tournament. While its closest competitor, Yale, was meeting its first setback at Columbia, the Big Red last week again gave strong evidence that it will be a tough team to overhaul by walloping first Columbia and then Harvard, thus making its record five up and seven to go. Last Saturday's game with Dartmouth, scheduled for Hanover, was postponed by wet grounds and no date has been set for a replay...
That lesson cost Joe Pew an estimated $200,000, taught him never to go away till an election was safely over. In 1936 he had another setback as he helplessly watched Kansas' Alf Landon become the G. O. P. choice; loyally he bought tons of sun flower badges, tons of propaganda; bitterly he heard gentle Mr. Landon soft-pedal attacks on the New Deal. Today mention of Alf Landon is likely to make Mr. Pew sneer: "Is he a Republican...
Eager to avenge last Saturday's 14 to 9 setback at the hands of a strong Yale polo team, Major Sargent's malletmen will oppose their rivals tonight on the home field, confident of taking full advantatge of the larger playing area afforded at the Armory...
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...