Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main force of some 60,000 Spanish Rightists under General Juan Yague, advancing toward Lérida, "the Key to Barcelona," found themselves briefly balked at the Cinca River. The People's Army had blown up all bridges for 50 miles along the Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung over the Cinca, the motorized units roared across, resumed their role as the steel spearhead...
Comrade Chowder will come to Cambridge from a retreat in Leavenworth in an armored plane, L. Lane Leeway, President of the Young Conservatives, declared yesterday in a prepared statement. "Marx my word," Leeway added, "Chowder will be able to handle even the Student Union hecklers--all right, all right--after all he has lectured at Yale...
...eyewitness with the Leftist forces close to the front last week was Chicago Daily News's Richard Mowrer, who later contrived to get the following out uncensored: "This correspondent saw the retreat of a whole division of Republican forces turn to flight-a flight which lasted ten hours before any visible attempt was made to check it. There were no officers in sight...
...INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY-P. W. Bridgman-Macmillan ($2.50). RETREAT FROM REASON-Lancelot T. Hogben-Random House ($1). By the centenary of his birth (1938), predicted Historian Henry Adams, science would have built "a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder." But in 1938 science's millennium is still to seek. Shuddering harder than ever, many a modern now says science is a phoney...
Last week The Intelligent Individual and Society and Retreat from Reason continued the counterattack. The more tentative of the two authors, tousled, 55-year-old Percy Williams Bridgman, famed Harvard physicist, admits that people are harder to understand than physics. In time, however, he thinks that man's complex make-up can be plotted and simplified, provided men take over the physicist's skeptical (but not cynical) attitude toward things-in-general. His major discovery, after 300 pages of considering man's odd behavior, is that people are mentally lazy...