Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Daniel Mulvey of the New Haven Register: "There's no such thing as moral victory in football, but if ever a team deserved credit in defeat it was Yale. The final score was wide enough by scoreboard measurement but far from the total the hard-driving Cantabs hoped to roll...
Fresh from its recent defeat by the Vassar Miscellany News in which all the passes made by Dick "J. Press" Tweedy were batted down by the alert female secondary, the Eli inkslingers could offer little resistance to the CRIMSON outfit which boasts a season record of 23 wins and only two defeats...
...that it is willing to go to the length of war to save Britain. President Conant said last night that unless we decide this question now, and decide it in the affirmative, the Axis powers will surely win: "The opinion is growing among qualified judges that such a defeat (of the Axis powers) is possible only if the American people without reservation will pledge the country's resources to that end." He would have the people pledge themselves to go to war, when and if "military experts" advise it. But military experts are never unanimous in their advice. Essentially...
...will wreck the country. If we were to renounce the latter reason, and base our non-belligerency on strategy alone, as President Conant would have us do, our aid to Britain would not increase any faster than it is now. Then why is this decision essential to a defeat of the Axis at the present time...
...speaking tonight as a private citizen of this republic a private citizen deeply concerned with the present foreign threat to our nation's future. I am one of those who believe that our free way of life can be secured only by a defeat of the Axis powers. The opinion is growing among qualified judges that such a defeat is possible only if the American people without reservation will pledge the country's resources to that end. Are we willing to go so far? This is the fundamental question which must be now debated...