Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Mr. Ridley had come in late that morning. He did not notice Moench, dead on the floor, for some time. The mystery of Moench's death was never solved. Last week another killer followed the pointing white hand down to Mr. Ridley's musty retreat and another, more gruesome mystery attached itself to No. 63 Allen Street...
...vaguest conception of what philosophy is, or intends to accomplish, either before or after taking the course. This class is largely composed of those who fear the mournful numbers of mathematics in the matter of taking off the mathematics requirement, and five into the depths of philosophy in full retreat. The other class is composed of those who are either concentrating in Philosophy or Psychology or else are eager to gain an introduction to Philosophy by the historical method. This class generally leaves the course little more enlightened than the first...
...Friends!" he began. "This is a day of national consecration. . . . The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance...
...back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with a right jab and a left cross when the champion, forcing the fight as a champion should, charged in with his head low, swinging both hands. The referee, Lieutenant Jack Kennedy, U. S. N., gave Corbett every round up to the sixth when Corbett failed to back...
...RETREAT-Horace Gregory- Harcourt, Brace ($1.50). Slim volume of modernistic verse by a poet who gets a good press...