Word: defeated
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...Hitler, it might still be, but his aggression drove scientists out of Europe, and the desperate need to defeat him galvanized the U.S. and Britain into pouring money into defense research, creating powerful new technologies--radar, sonar, the atom bomb. U.S. leaders learned that pure research like atomic and electromagnetic physics, combined with massive government funding, could lead to dramatic breakthroughs in military technology. Because the Soviet Union almost immediately became just as ominous a threat as Nazi Germany had been, Congress created the National Science Foundation in 1950 to fund basic and applied science, mostly at universities, "to promote...
Harvard College Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68, a DEAS member, said the science and engineering professors produced the statements in hopes of working with the curricular review committees to revise the proposals—not to defeat the curricular review in a final Faculty vote...
...annual NCAA preview, “Baseball America” picked Harvard to repeat as Ivy League champions. According to the publication, which is widely regarded as the authority on college baseball, the Crimson will edge Brown, Yale, and arch-nemesis Dartmouth in the Red Rolfe division and defeat Princeton in the league Championship Series...
...from even mentioning the notion of avenging the U.S. strike. Yet, intelligence officials are debating whether the tape is intended as a justification of a coming attack. Though couching al-Qaeda's war in defensive rather than offensive terms, Zawahiri noted that he was "participating" in jihad "until we defeat...
...Martin's defeat had been widely expected. The surprise was that soon you can't call him Liberal leader either. His postelection announcement that he won't helm the party in any future vote has set off a mad scramble that suggests the Liberals' top brass are more concerned with recapturing power than examining why they lost Canadians' support. "This is a low point in the history of the party," acknowledges Liberal Senator Francis Fox, a former Cabinet minister who was a top adviser to Martin in the early, upbeat days of his two-year rule. A low point...