Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Captain Lang Burwell, the Mikkolamen boast victories this year over B. U., Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and N. H. against no losses, while Yale's record includes wins over M. I. T. and Wesleyan but a defeat by Connecticut. The Tigers have downed Penn and Columbia but have succumbed to N. Y. U., Army, and Navy...
Even after the defeat, Captain Brousse was still operating in high gear, getting no less than 10,000 litres of gasoline for the U. S. Embassy in Vichy when there was no gasoline, fighting correspondents' battles against the military censorship, ar ranging impossible interviews. He did not do so badly on his own behalf. Appointed press attache to the French Embassy in Washington last month, he went from Vichy to Paris, outshouted the Germans, returned with 23 trunkloads of belongings, put them and his lovely Georgia-born wife in a car and trailer and drove...
...materials from the colonial empires of France and The Netherlands, manned by conscript labor, the workshops of Nazi Europe could offer competition in foreign trade that Britain could scarcely hope to meet. That would be an economic war in which the U.S. also would be in danger of defeat...
...evidence of a press "dictatorship" Boss Flynn cited a column by Dorothy Thompson (declaring that the Rome-Berlin Axis hopes for a Roosevelt defeat), which the New York Herald Tribune dropped (TIME...
...Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME, Oct. 14), recently fished on Sunday, caught nothing, returned in time to confess to his congregation: "It has become clear to me that I allowed the flesh to triumph . . . and suffered a spiritual defeat...