Word: descending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle. He stopped McClellan's advance at Mechanicsville, then cut Federal communication with the White House by cleverly passing his troops around to "Stonewall" Jackson's aid. Again the Union forces advanced, now under Pope. The bold strategy of ordering Jackson around Pope's wing to descend on his rear, and the lucky swelling of the Rappahannock River, combined to crush the invaders...
...schoolteacher, daughter of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, was taking a hike with a girl companion in Yosemite Valley, California. They were having a good time, throwing snowballs and leaping down a rocky trail, until they found themselves on a ledge from which it was impossible to descend and dangerous to retrace their trail up the valley. It was midnight before a party of five rangers came to their rescue, hauled them up 100 feet with ropes...
...Congressional appropriation for the same purpose is $20,100,000. Sir Samuel startled many, last week, by announcing that a modified form of helicopter developed by the British Air Service has been successfully flown across country for 35 miles. Hitherto this species of aircraft, designed to rise and descend vertically, has been deemed impractical. The British contraption, called an "autogyro," possesses revolving wings...
...small numbers and their unfavorable location, have played a part in history quite out of proportion to their numerical rank. Twice they have, indeed, been the leaders of Europe. The first time was in 1630, when Gustavus Adolfus placed Sweden on a pinnacle from which she soon had to descend. Again, two and a half centuries later, Scandinavia was an arbiter, but this time in the field of letters. Ibsen, Strindberg, Bjornson formed a mighty trio of dramatists; and the greatest of these was Ibsen...
...order to secure such honors, dog-fanciers, like the owners of racing stables, will sometimes descend to low and disgraceful practices. For example, Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, highly successful exhibitor of collies, aroused the professional jealousy of, it is surmised, an unscrupulous competitor. This competitor was aware that Mrs. Ilch was afflicted with a weak heart, that she had two sons who go to college. Accordingly, when she was on the point of leading her first entry into the ring, the competitor sent Mrs. Florence Ilch a telegram which read as follows: "Hurry to New Haven immediately, son, James, killed...