Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer & autumn Albert R. Brand has been roving the hills of New Jersey and southern New York. Before dawn he would drive his truck up beside a pre-selected tree or fence, bear to it a small, cable-attached object, then retreat to wait, watch, listen. Once he put his '"trap" on the limb where a song sparrow came each dawn to serenade his nesting mate; once near a beer barrel which a whippoorwill had chosen for its nightly concert stage...
...same platform with Len Small, Illinois' unsavory Republican nominee for Governor. The Hoover speech here developed a long and elaborate analogy between the Civil War & 1864 and the economic war & 1932. The President pictured himself standing in Lincoln's shoes when the latter reviewed the retreat of the Union arms. He recalled the Democratic clamor for immediate cessation of hostilities. He continued...
...today, banal thoughts of commercialism make graceless retreat before a tide of grey and gold. For thirty-seven years West Point has met Harvard, smartly, proudly, cleanly even in the days of flying wedges and greased uniforms. It is but a tithe of the time that John Harvard's spirit has hovered over the Yard, but it is long enough to prove that Harvard continues to enjoy the rivalry of officers and gentlemen...
...deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany. For the Vagabond sees only the frost-blushed ivy on a fine full day in the dawnlight, remembers only the inspiring sight of the citadel lighted blue green by moonlight and snow, and he rejoices in his retreat...
...class includes all persons, Communist or not," continues Professor Hopper, "who are of primary importance to the state in the fulfillment of its economic plans. Its growth is indicative of the retreat on the part of the Soviet government from theoretical equality. The chief lack in Russia has been trained personnel to operate the enormous plant built under the forced pressure of the Five Year Plan. To encourage greater effort on the part of the proletariat to become trained, the Soviet government last year began widening the gulf between unskilled and skilled labor in terms of food allowance, clothing, housing...