Word: failed
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...will fight for freedom of the seas, for "if the Axis powers fail to gain control of the seas they are certainly defeated." > Nazi occupation of Iceland, Greenland, the Cape Verde Islands, the Azores would "endanger the freedom of the Atlantic and our own American physical safety." > The U.S. will not wait until the Western Hemisphere is actually invaded to strike back: "We in the Americas will decide for ourselves whether and when and where our American interests are attacked or our security threatened...
...fundamental military doctrine for World War II has been laid down by the U.S. Commander in Chief. Said he last week in his broadcast speech: "If the Axis powers fail to gain control of the seas, they are certainly defeated. Their dreams of world domination will then go by the board and the criminal leaders that started this war will suffer inevitable disaster...
...last year's copies of TIME, I noted the following in the issue for Feb. 12, 1940: "But before he [Mussolini] embarked on all this, he gave an early morning order: the task of recodifying Italian law, which he began 17 years ago . . . must be completed without fail...
This was typical, for although Franklin Roosevelt often creates new agencies to retrieve old failures, he rarely reorganizes those that fail. For two years he had the power for which many a President before him yearned-to reorganize the departments of the Government-but last January, when the Reorganization Act which gave him that power quietly expired at its two-year term, he had used it to shift only a few bureaus and make a few more jobs. Neither a key organization nor a key man had come out of the multiplication of agencies. No one had yet grown...
Only two-fifths of Harvard's undergraduate season-ticket holders get any closer to the main-ground of gridiron play that thirty yards from midfield. This is a much-lamented fact, but what most complainants fail to realize is that its cause lies in the architectural lay-out of Harvard Stadium, not in the H. A. A.'s distributive system...