Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autogiro's most valuable feature is that it can descend almost vertically, and on almost any sort of field...
...test worked successfully again at a depth of 76 feet. When the S-4 attempted to descend to 20 fathoms (120 feet, slightly deeper than the S-4 lay off Provincetown) her periscope sprung a leak and she had to rise, be towed back to Key West for repairs...
...minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands see them, thousands talk about them, the pundits study them. Only the work of genius can survive this bitter ordeal by familiarity. At length the enduring works are borne with punditical hosannas to the Louvre. The rest descend in devious channels to oblivion...
...purring motors come the stars through the bracing California evening. The blocks about the theatre are set with huge searchlights sweeping heaven. Fierce cordons of police force order in the crowds, thousands of common folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone. Bewildered tourists from a saner world blink and are startled as they step into the white lobby light where the inevitable...
...professoriat demonstration Prof. A. A. Merril of the Daniel Guggenheim Graduate School of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) would climb into his "Flying Pickle" and proceed to demonstrate that his invention could range in speed from 45 to 105 miles per hour, take off, land, climb, descend, balance itself, without the pilot so much as touching the controls...