Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From a comparative perspective, this Australian professor could observe what many of us often miss: that the student body, like the majority of Americans, is essentially anti-intellectual in nature. It's disheartening to watch what could be America's greatest collection of raw intellectual talent descend into choosing their courses by exam date and lecture time...
Five hundred of the best swimmers on the East Coast will descend on Cambridge today through Saturday, as Blodgett Pool plays host to the 49th annual Eastern Seaboard Swimming and Diving Championships...
Georgetown is like Harvard Square, only more crowded. It is cluttered with lots of boutiques and gourmet food stores. At night, hordes of college students descend upon the bars and restaurants and turn the whole area into a drunken brawl. Sports fans, don't miss Champions, a bar noted for its vocal support of the Redskins and the Georgetown Hoyas...
...busy praying for a plague of locusts to descend on the Soviet Union. I didn't want to disturb...
During his speech, Jenninger said, he tried to reach the youth of West Germany by describing the horrors of the Holocaust and explaining how a civilized nation could descend to sheer barbarism. "And when it got so bad, as it was in November 1938, people could still say, using the words of a contemporary--'What is it to us? Look away if it terrifies you, it is not our fate,'" he said...