Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chicken, thought Dr. Gross, would make the heath-cock a very good mate indeed. The State of Wisconsin agreed to ship a few prairie chickens, New York sportsmen agreed to bear the cost; Dr. Gross agreed to choose the hen, to introduce it to the heath-cock's retreat. But there was no time to waste, he warned; the mating season was on and no one knew when the heath-cock might boom a last boom and boom no more...
...Witches' Flight by Wassilenko was eerie music fairly descriptive of its title. Illiashenko's Dyptique Mongol dissonantly depicted the retreat of the warriors escorting dead Genghis Khan, their preparations for battle afterward. The Witches' Flight is 23 years old. And the composer of Dyptique Mongol teaches at the Brussels Conservatory, is a White Russian expatriate like Prokofiev and Stravinsky. But most people knowing that Conductor Stokowski brought the two new scores home with him on his return from Russia last spring, knowing him to be an alert musical reporter,* assumed that these importations were Soviet products...
...note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have had no idea of the overwhelming glare of press and police activity which was shortly to ignite in his remote retreat, providing a possible barrier forever between him and his child, when he summoned officers from Hopewell...
...Chinese Retreat. Battered and bombed for over a month, China's antiquated Woosung Forts (16 miles from Shanghai) became one day last week the target for nine Japanese warships, scores of Japanese field pieces and dozens of Japanese bombing planes. A continuous bombardment and bombing was kept up until all Chinese holding the forts were extinct...
...subject but an evolution necessary to the increased maturity of the student. The intelligent and active mind in the school should be able to step into the college at its natural level and be able to continue where it left off, rather than being forced to repeat or retreat. If the boy is to come upon the tutorial system at college, then the school should train him to use this system. As education is essentially an attitude of mind it must be common to both secondary school and to college. Both parts of the system should be as if designed...