Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irrevocably lose his sight, was offered two hundred pounds by a reporter for an article on "How it Feels To Be Going Blind"; Mr. Joyce exercised the pleasant privilege of having the man thrown out on his car. The Harvard student cannot do that. The Harvard student cannot even retreat to the Fijis or Manchonkuo. He is defenseless...
...pure intellect, the President's views on the mechanics of an education are broad and humanistic: they admit the advantages of society's ameliorating influence; they hint at the beauties of conviviality; and most encouraging of all, they show a definite desire to perpetuate Harvard as a gentleman's retreat, rather than a gubber's paradise...
...climbed into his car to drive back to his retreat, they still heard him: "Nothing to say-nothing-nothing...
Next came the military retreat, couched in these shrewd words...
...exciting but comparatively simple job to pluck three Boy Scouts off a narrow ledge jutting from the perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly night on the ledge they were sighted by search parties. A Coast Guard aviator flew a 1,000-ft. rope from Plattsburgh, hovered overhead signaling directions while res- cuers hauled the boys hand over hand, one at a time, up the cliff...