Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this reading, James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" seems the best of an excellent field, it may not be necessary to defend the choice. The little man, now the indomitable sea dog, Captain Mitty, now the great surgeon, and overshoes, but even in the moment of defeat and annihilation "the inscrutable Walter Mitty"-- he may remain for us the symbol of our age, with his two-for-a-cent dream life manufactured by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his real life a complex of frustration. There is space only to mention Irwin Shaw's three stories, Christopher Isherwood...
...their only encounter so far this season, the Engineers went down to defeat at the hands of a mediocre Lord Jeff squad from Amherst...
...shows that almost half of the student body is in favor of going to war if necessary. 16.3 per cent are in favor of military aid to Britain immediately and another 31.7 per cent would be willing to go to war only if England were in imminent danger of defeat...
Following on the heels of the Committee's war rally of December 5, the petition urges "the Congress of the United States to undertake positive measures for the defeat of the Axis powers by ensuring all possible aid to Britain at once" in view of the fact that the U.S. "is already in a state of undeclared...
...Totalitarian methods of pressure" would be used by the Axis in the event of a British defeat if they did not even attempt to attack this country directly and immediately. To prevent such dangers, speedy action "to be decided by military authorities on the basis of maximum effectiveness against the Axis powers" should be taken...