Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inserted in each & every one of William Randolph Hearst's 17 Sunday newspapers and claiming the world's largest circulation (6,036,686). If, as often happens, not enough miracles, scientific discoveries, prince-&-chamber-maid romances occur to fill its pages, Editor Morrill Goddard and his staff retreat to a nearly inexhaustible morgue of fact & fable, dust off old material as fresh offerings...
...Joseph Scholasticate, where he taught philosophy, canonical law, moral theology. Vastly erudite, he taught also at the University of Ottawa, became dean of its theological faculty in 1929. Ottawa knew him as its "Good Father," a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founder of several houses of retreat, a tall, spare cleric who lends ascetic dignity to the affairs of his church...
...interest. Last week the I. C. C. agreed to this by a seven-to-four majority, said individual roads could keep the increased revenues for themselves, without contributing to a common pool. Caustic dissenting opinion, written by Commissioner Joseph Eastman, said there was "no occasion for beating such a retreat. It is impossible to prove such a plan as in the public interest...
...panting retreaters threw away their rifles, coats, hats, canteens, valuable extra pairs of officers' high boots, to run the faster. In the utter Chinese rout General Ma, who had begun the day by promising " I will fight so long as one Chinese stands by my side!" ended it safely some 30 miles ahead of the main retreat. For the rest of the week he skulked north of the walled City of Tsitsihar which Japanese took as their prize...
...September 2, the troop was the rear guard for the retreat from Winchester to Harper's Ferry. When General Miles surrendered there, the cavalry made a daring escape, capturing an ammunition train of 85 wagons...