Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Tuss McLaughry will bring his Brown boys to Cambridge by bus tomorrow morning, so we will have to finesse the usual day-before color story of the enemy arriving today, working out in the Stadium, and camping in the shady retreat of some nearby school...
...Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would zip 1,000 miles or more to bombard an enemy, could then retreat at a speed faster than some enemy bullets could chase...
...total of 500,000 in Europe, of whom one-sixth are militants. Jocism recruits mem bers at 14, asks their resignations when, they marry or reach 25. Like all militant organizations, from the Jesuits to the Comintern, the Jocists put their leader ship through exhaustive training, holding a retreat-like congress once a year in Belgium. Canon Cardijn calls it "the Jocist Sacrament." For the aim of Jocism is peaceful revolution, a Christian upsurge in the ranks of labor, based not upon Marxian materialism but upon the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. Jocism in doctrinates...
...Visitors' Day" program, which was arranged by the students, was voted the best of recent years by officers who had been to previous camps. At the final retreat parade, medals and awards were made for excellence in the various phases of camp aitivities...
...excellent athletic program carried on in the Camp. Soft ball was the predominant sport, volley ball was a close second, while the barnyard game of horse-shoes took the "spare" time of many enthosiasts. "It's a ringer" was heard many an afternoon between close of drill and retreat. The final game of the soft ball league, played on Visitors' Day, was a thriller, such as one reads about in the sports magaiznes...