Word: descending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grasp of native mentality applied by Mr. Maurice Drummond Peterson, technical expert of Britain's Foreign Office, in concocting The Deal. It provides that Italy must evacuate, surrender and restore to Ethiopia her Holy City of Aksum. "Praise be to God!" cried the Abuna. "Let the Holy Spirit descend upon these conditions. These are Words...
...accustomed to the older English universities. There the teachers are largely absorbed, and become organs of a greater organism. Their existence is of and for the university, and their affiliations are as much social as educational. On the other hand, at Harvard they live in their own hives, and descend upon the college only to apply the sting of knowledge. This is the traditional scheme. For this reason and for practical considerations as well, it is impossible to suggest that Harvard provide lodgings for its instructors. Furthermore, their independence has definite advantages...
...Melbourne, Nice, Auteuil, Wimbledon were crowded briefly by that small, ubiquitous group of young men with white flannel trousers and sunburned noses who make it their business, all year round, to wangle for the world's major tennis championships. Last week the group was preparing to descend on Forest Hills, N. Y. for the last major event of the year, the 54th U. S. Singles Championship. Meanwhile the long series of preliminaries to that tournament were being brought to an end at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and South Orange...
...suburb of Royal Oak. A Klan cross burning before his church door turned him to fighting bigotry by radio. For two years he preached simple gospel and his mail grew slowly to 4,000 letters per week. Having imbibed the social doctrines of Pope Leo XIII, he determined to descend from moral generalities to hard social particulars. With uncommon eloquence he articulated popular discontent. When he reviled unemployment, mass production, unequal distribution of wealth, his mail reached new peaks-at times 1,000,000 letters per week. With it came cash, cash, cash- more than enough to pay large radio...
Crosby happens to neglect the proper aristocratic spirit as he sings his way into the heart of a Russian Princess at Monte Carlo. Happily, the Princess finds it possible to descend to plebian emotions with comfortable restraint and grace. Possibly this is because she is Kitty Carlisle...