Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legislature in Cape Town: "Resolved, That this House is of the opinion that the time has come for the state of war against Germany to be ended and for peace to be restored." Voting on the resolution was postponed until this week, but it was considered doomed to certain defeat...
Jenunie Bunker failed to clear his customary six feet when last he appeared at the Garden. Rob Partlow, his partner in defeat in that week, will not take part in this one: he's an old timer at six feet, though and many not used the practice too badly...
Current signs of amity, Aikman believes, are due to the Good Neighbor policy and the War. "The State Department . . . took its partial defeat at Lima with a minimum of moral pout and snobbery, and at Panama, in September 1939, it had its partial reward. . . . [But] the U. S. . . . came to Panama with the fiscal and economic power to ruin or succor a dozen or more republics whose trade ties and money links with Germany . . . had been completely disrupted by the War . . . Uncle Sam had suddenly become the only banker and grocer on his street." Unchanged remain the bottom facts that...
...Nothing but rest will defeat the common cold," Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, stated last night...
...central front the Finns continued to harass their invaders, reported the recapture of Salla and the defeat of another Russian division (the 44th) near Suomussalmi. The Finns said they "destroyed" the main Russian force, captured 102 guns, 43 tanks, ten armored cars, 16 anti-aircraft cars with four guns each, 262 other cars, 75 automatic rifles, 47 field kitchens and 1,170 horses...