Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sacrilege!" In the House of Commons last week Major Stanley was obliged to execute as gracefully as possible an excruciatingly awkward and painful maneuver. National Government were supposed to be advancing with their new Dole program on all fronts. The gallant Major had orders to sound a general retreat...
Typhus, more than cold or Russian bullets, made Napoleon retreat from Moscow. Cold, hungry soldiers lay in their own filth on rotten straw. According to de Kirckhoff, a corps surgeon, despairing men ate leather and even human flesh...
...this manner, since the spectra are too faint to be analyzed. But it has been observed that speeds are closely proportional to distance, increasing about 1,000 miles per second for every 10,000,000 light-years of space. Few months ago Dr. Hubble measured the fastest nebular retreat at 24,000 miles per second. That one was 240,000,000 light-years away. No decipherable spectrum of the outpost nebula reported last week was obtained, but. if it follows the rule, it is receding from Earth at 50,000 miles per second...
...week der Reichsführer stayed snug in his Bavarian mountain retreat. Such is popular ignorance under the Nazi system of "guided news," that in Berlin crowds gathered every day outside the Realmleader's office in Wilhelmstrasse, shouting plaintively from time to time, "Leader, dear Leader, come out to us!" Stolid police saw no reason why they should explain that the Dear Leader was some 400 miles away. Exultant Berlin papers hailed him as the greatest vote-getter of all time, far greater than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now the world could no longer scoff, Germans exulted, at German election...
...Song-&-Danceman Oscar Shaw (Very Good Eddie, Flying High) in his first legitimate appearance, in which he is called upon to impersonate the leader of an impoverished gang of ex-bootleggers. An air-minded heiress (handsome Claudia Morgan) drops out of a fog into the mob's rural retreat. The lady is detained for ransom, and, as Playwrights Shipman & Hymer have one of their hoodlums say, she might easily have fallen into the hands of less humane snatchers who would have kept her in a cellar "and given her nothing but musty bread and dank water." Another positive advantage...