Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terraced, rice-grown countryside. About 1,000 were killed, though a month of anticipatory rumbling had warned them to flee. The eruption was out of the bowels of Mount Tokachi, in the centre of Hokkaido, northernmost of the main islands of the island empire of Japan and last retreat of the Hairy Ainus.* One of the 50 technically active of Japan's 200 or more volcanic peaks, Mount Tokachi, is at the intersection of two volcanic ranges that intersect on the kite-shaped island. Three main explosions took place, the first setting loose the water that had lain cradled...
...Hornaday has studied and collected wild life in virtually every retreat and game paradise of the world. He knows from personal acquaintance the cave-birds of Trinidad; the crocodiles of Florida and Venezuela; the elephants of Africa and India; the musk ox and his ugly tropical cousin, the water buffalo, which stalks humans. He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn...
...system was in existence at William and Mary College as a deliberate educational theory, although but little developed in practice, nearly half a century before its adoption at Harvard, and many years before it became generally the basis of what seems to me to have been essentially a strategic retreat of educators from an increasingly unmanageable mass of modern knowledge. Looked at historically, I think the hay-field episode is an accurate illustration of what has happened in our colleges during the last century. Overwhelmed by new facts that were coming faster than they could be managed, educators slid...
...Government, barred his way at the entrance to a long bridge. Imperious Pilsudski demanded the resignation of the Witos Cabinet, the formation of a Cabinet largely Socialist. Since the President's troops were outnumbered, he could offer no more defiance than to refuse the demand, hastily retreat to the Belnedere Palace on the extreme western rim of Warsaw, fortify himself there, leaving the city to Pilsudski...
...draws a throng form the cities. Even the narrow isolation for one's room is sometimes a welcome relief from the competitive chatter of fellow collegians. When melancholy descends upon the soul, whether caused by a surfeit of real suffering, an unlovely letter, or the failure of some finesse, retreat from neighborly jostling often heals the hurt quickly...