Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rules is, 'Whenever you are in danger of infection, fast.' He loves doctoring. When I was at the Ashram [Gandhi's religious retreat] I was ill for a day or two, nothing serious, but Mr. Gandhi insisted on treating me and he made me fast much longer than I thought necessary. He came to see me on his weekly day of silence and therefore he wrote down all his questions, and such comments as what he thought of my tongue when I put it out at a gesture from him. I registered a mental vow that...
...Vagabond). He was many miles away, in the hither-flung regions of New Hampshire, to be exact, and was engrossed in taking a vacation. Business was a bit slack, so he wired his old friend, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the able prognosticator, to come out of his mysterious retreat.... its whereabouts are known only to the Vagabond, his boon companion.... and off they went to the upper reaches of the White Mountains...
...sort of thing which has stimulated opposition to Professor Freud's theories throughout his long career. Against that opposition he, always a shy man, built the fastness of his Vienna home. Last week, while savants did him homage the world over, he did not emerge from his retreat. Illness was his good excuse. His wife and Anna, the only unmarried one of their six children, would not admit even relatives...
...attack launched eastward into the west flank of the new Marne salient near its base below Soissons. Simultaneously other U. S. forces attacked from below. The strategy was to squeeze the Germans out and eliminate the bulge. The attack was successful. On July 20 began the German retreat. Wrote General Pershing: "The magnificent conduct of our ist and 2nd Divisions . . . marked the turning of the tide...
...When he returned to his quaint old office he felt chilly. He called his car, went to his home on Madison Avenue over which falls shadows of midtown skyscrapers. (Next day the Empire State Building was opened.) Only recently had he come North from his Georgia retreat on Jekyl Island, where he and a small group of leading financiers have found rest and seclusion since 1886 and whither his most intimate friend, Edward Eugene Loomis, had tenderly taken him last January...