Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is hardly any reason for continuing attempts to gain the inclusion of the three Germans in the principal memorial. The Corporation and the president have acted, and it is hardly possible that they will retreat. But retreat is impossible for those whose minds have risen above mere donations and pledges; for those who see the absurdity of two distinct memorials to one group...
...Serajevo last year Jugoslav patriots unveiled a tablet honoring Patriot Princip on the scene of his crime (TIME, Feb. 3 & 17, 1930). Gallant Major Tankositch fell in battle during the Serbian retreat from Belgrade...
Biggest individual U. S. destiny to be tripped into a stumble by Depression is, of course, that of Herbert Hoover. Next biggest may well be reckoned as that of Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton who, last week, was forced back yet further in his long retreat...
General Foch in his memoirs describes the retreat of the 5th Army under General Gough as follows: "On the north the British Army maintained in general its positions, but it was quite otherwise with General Cough's Fifth Army. Along almost the whole of its front, it was swept away, its right in particular being thrown back west of Saint-Quentin up to the edge of the Crozat Canal. On . . . the 22nd, this army, badly shaken, retreated toward the Somme. An extraordinary incident here took place -one only to be explained by the contagion which spread from the confused...
Lenin's shrewdest retreat was his NEP ("New Economic Policy"). Having found out that the State monopolies could not supply fast enough the goods which were absolutely demanded, Lenin retreated two steps in 1921 by admitting to Russia private, capitalistic traders nicknamed "Nepmen...