Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever completely in the toils of social forces, they are now. On Sunday eager students turn their steps to Widener, and retreat, bitterly frustrated, when they find it closed. "Cases of neurosis increase by about five per cent during the exam period," so the report will go. It is a time like the Reformation, when fundamentals are questioned. And why not, with all the rotogravures turning out pictures of Miami bathing beauties? Or with proctors in the exams dangling their Phi Beta Kappa keys before the eyes of the students...
...Russian mechanized forces that were rolling southward, a thick, swirling snowstorm enveloped the Russian Army. Tanks and lorries had to be dug out of snowdrifts. Gasoline supply trucks were stalled on the road from the north. The Russians had no shelter because the Finns had burned everything before retreating. While the Russians huddled around their machines, trying to keep warm in a −25° temperature, Finns swooped down from the hillsides on skis, began potting them from the woods with machine guns. It took little of this to convince the Russians that they had gone too far from base...