Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Naval R. O. T. C., or the C. A. A., should continue without interruption in his academic work unless he is called for service. Everyone should be wide awake to America's problem. Supporting the policy of all aid to Britain necessary to defeat the Axis, the Harvard president did not feel that this policy warranted entrance into the war at this time...
WASHINGTON--Alf M. Landon today proposed that the United States help defeat Adolf Hitler with outright subsidies to Great Britain and that, in the interests of successful rearmament, labor temporarily forfeit some of its rights...
...chief reason which the British Ambassador offers for American aid to Britain by measures which do not stop short of war is that without such aid Britain may not be able to win and that Americans should be fearful of the consequences of British defeat. Such reasoning rests upon a misunderstanding of American psychology. Nearly all Americans lament the defeat of France and would lament a similar defeat of Britain. But they are unready to believe that they are dependent upon any foreign power for their own national defense, and they can not easily be frightened into participation...
Thomas W. Lamont '92, of New York City, presented a rare collection of books, manuscripts and broadsides relating to the Spanish Armada, described by Mr. Metcalf as "a collection of scope and importance so great that it may well inspire a reappraisal of the history of the Defeat of the Armada...
...Thomson: "Mr. Stock won his audience ... as he has won audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering its Chicago defeat, wondering how to get it back into its old form...