Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life here will then enter a brief lull until 1602 freshmen descend on Harvard Yard September...
...York Times snagged a Pulitzer Prize for its exhaustive coverage of Harvard's 300th birthday celebration. Now, 50 years later, as more than 900 journalists descend upon Cambridge to report on Harvard's 350th anniversary, three major national newsmagazines have already chipped in with lengthy cover stories prompted by the event. But don't count on any walking off with journalism's top prize this time around...
...sorts. The 22 conferees began their meetings in July under an agreement that they would try to finish by Aug. 15. They were afraid that if they did not have a deal by then, the whole bill would be picked apart by a swarm of lobbyists who would descend on Senators and Representatives back home during the three-week recess...
...fossil record had also apparently shown that the australopithecines evolved in an orderly way: first came afarensis, followed by africanus, then robustus and boisei. But the age and form of WT 17000 convinced Leakey and Walker that the lineage was not simple after all. Boisei did not descend from robustus, and probably not even from afarensis...
Armed with sophisticated equipment that enables them to locate and descend to long-lost shipwrecks, explorers are providing fascinating insights to the past. "We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology," says Navy Secretary Lehman. "We now have time capsules in the deep oceans...