Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nominate Wendell L. Willkie as Man of the Year. ... In his defeat there is no humiliation. On the contrary, his stature seems to rise and he becomes even more outstanding among the many great men who have featured this year's panorama...
...send the fifty destroyers to Germany or Italy, and their efforts would have been worse than vain." After the last war, the Times pointed out, a myth grew up that the U. S. went to war, not out of "the clear-sighted recognition of the need of defeating Germany at that time," but because it had been tricked by propaganda, et al. Said the Times reprovingly: "We should not permit now the creation of the myth that we have to be tricked into taking actions to insure Hitler's defeat...
...order that students may follow the course of the French Republic since is defeat, and interpret accurately the actions of the French colonies, the four instructors in charge of the Union post daily maps and clippings concerning the French Empire. All recent books on the downfall of France are in the library as is also a great deal of other material not available in Widener...
...reason of the Axis blackout of free institutions, the administration of national defense is an urgent problem, opening out new and difficult situations of many kinds arising from new forms of "total war." Unless an early and decisive defeat is inflicted upon the Axis Powers, we must contemplate farflung warfare, declared or undeclared, military, economic, diplomatic, of a new and total type, hitherto unfamiliar to mankind. This contest will involve a sweeping reorientation and reorganization of administrative practice in many directions by keen and energetic minds, many of whom will be administrators...
...this is the opening match for both teams, it is hard to make any prediction but it is known that the Engineers have an unusually strong squad this year, and will surely do better than their 33-3 defeat of last season. 175-pound John Carloton, only Techman to win his bout last year, will be the chief threat this afternoon...