Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo when hostilities started eleven months ago. In the tortuous back-stepping before the Japanese the Generalissimo has repeatedly pulled his own crack German-trained divisions from the front lines first, leaving the raw, ill-equipped mass of his army, largely composed of provincial troops, to cover the retreat. This, coupled with Chiang's hesitancy in sending the Chinese Air Force, concentrated at Hankow, to the aid of Canton, led to persistent reports last week that General Li Tsung-jen would withdraw his Kwangsi levies for a defense of his home province...
...line in three directions, columns of Rightist troops pierced beyond the heavy fortifications of Albocacer, surrounded Lucena del Cid, were within easy gunshot at week's end of the ruined port of Castellon de la Plana (Big Castle of the Plain). In the north was reported the slow retreat toward France of the Leftist "Lost Division"of 10,000 militiamen, 3,000 peasants, trapped for eleven weeks in the high Pyrenees...
...possibility, nay the probability, of such a progenitor has thrown the entire staff of the Geology department into utter confusion. The retreat, headed by Professor Dither, has not yet begun, but the imminent final in Geology 1 this morning promises to be the scene of a scientific polemic comparable to the Scopes trial. If Professor Dither is able to stall off the reporters, the examination will be given as if no such event as Spinachseed's discovery had transpired. The professor states that his strategy will be to pretend he has never heard of Spinachseed. He has been quoted...
...President Hutchins, once the "boy wonder'' of education, now turned metaphysician, Porter Sargent says: "He would be sure to get the Catholic vote. . . . The Pope is in agreement with Hutchins. as are Mussolini and Hitler. The fascists recruit from good men spent, scared and in retreat. . . . Hutchins' 'good books' include political documents of no import today, a good deal of myth for the credulous and some pornography not current. . . . But Hutchins may not be unredeemable, if he could only get away from his medievalists, if [Philosopher Mortimer J.] Adler could be sent...
From Barcelona last week came confirmation that while Leftist troops were busy with their retreat to the sea month ago. Leftist military tribunals were busy wiping out disaffection behind the lines. During April in Barcelona alone 135 death penalties were dealt out, 103 for "defeatism" and treason...