Word: descending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tech of last Friday, there were such phrases as "Is the Harvard Crimson so bound up in national politics that it cannot descend from its lofty perch to meddle in petty school affairs?" and "The Tech will carry the battle to the very halls of the State Legislature and will pursue this cause until cause until definite action has been taken...
...CRIMSON seems to have found it good "copy" to descend to the level of Hearst editorializing. There are such sentences as: The years of lopsided representation, of murky and hazy financial activity, of membership practices that smack of Sigma Chi and the Whiffenpoofs, have neutralized the Council's sincere efforts at constructive leadership...
...when some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate veterans filed through Mem Hall and converged, authorizations in hands, on the Square, it isn't. During rush hours, the Square stores catering to the G.I. set take on the aspect of the Times Square station at 5 p.m., and perspiring salesmen descend from their stacks in many cases only to tell their perspiring customers that a book is (1) sold out, (2) out-or-print, (3) on order, or (4) just plain, ordinary, everyday unobtainable
After advertising their respective orhonored tales to a packed auditorium ganizations and plying the round of time-on the third floor of PBH, the orators had to descend to the first-floor parlor to address another group equally crowded...
...this strange age it has been left to the American Unitarian Association to descend to a level of theological discussion never reached in our knowledge by the most obscurantist fundamentalist sect. . . ." Reinhold Niebuhr was counterattacking in force...