Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often asserted that a war of 'limited liability' is impossible, and also that to enter upon war with any idea of conserving our strength is to invite defeat. The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical. We conducted all our wars until the last on the policy of profiting by our sea-moat and seapower to limit our liability . . . and had a sustained run of success in, and after, them that no other modern nation has known...
...touch-football league, the Gold Coasters' team went down to defeat before a strong Lowell eleven, paced by rangy Sam White's interceptions. Leverett shaded Eliot...
Undismayed by the defeat of Paul Kerins '41 in his race for Brookline School Committee last year, three Harvard students and a member of the coaching staff will toss their hats into the local political ring, when their names appear on the Cambridge City primary ballots on Tuesday, October...
...brief, the United States must fight if there is any chance of an Allied defeat. Under no circumstances must Hitler win. Mr. Greene perhaps envisages a Nazi-dictated peace which would reduce the Allies to vassal states, which would impose upon them the Fascist ideology, which would force the acceptance of gangsterism as the usual method of international negotiation. Fascism and the use of might would sweep over the world like the Black Death; and in such a world, a free and democratic America could not survive...
...finds it difficult," began the pensive dictator, "to explain such a defeat [the 14-day advance of the German Army] only by the superiority of German military technique . . . and by the lack of effective assistance ... of Great Britain and France. The Polish State has proved so impotent and inefficient that it began to crumble . . . with the first military set backs. What are the causes of the situation which brought Poland to the verge of bankruptcy...