Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries, long before Hinduism, which gradually assimilated her. A few years after the Prophet Mohamed sent Islam forth to conquer the world, Moslems appeared in India. After the 11th Century they were masters, sometimes in fact but more often in name, of the subcontinent. Some Moslems in India today descend from the conquerors; more are the children of Islam's vigorous proselytizing, and none the less fanatical for that...
Cabot Hall residents discovered Perry threading his way along a third-floor ledge at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, allegedly in an intoxicated condition. Cambridge police persuaded him to leave his perch and a crowd of about 100 girls watched him descend the adjacent fire escape, which he had apparently used to get to the ledge...
Upwards of 60 thin-clad soccer players descend every afternoon on the Business School Field and in amongst them Coach James MacDonald is building a team with a scoring punch. With the largest soccer squad in Harvard history Mac is having his troubles but spirit is not one of them...
...eight months, Mississippi's gnome-like Theodore Bilbo had been waiting for the day he would descend on Washington and reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate. Part of the time he spent dawdling around his echoing 27-room Dream House at Poplarville, Miss. Part of his exile was spent in New Orleans "getting my mouth reamed out." He had cancer of the mouth and he underwent a series of delicate operations...
...broke the altitude record in a free balloon in 1932,* is nearly ready to try for the undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...