Word: descends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was the performance, ending when the last planes grounded at 5 p. m.-flawless from the point of view of Royal Air Force officers who wanted training flights to France; reassuring to French householders who saw the planes descend to 3,000 feet to give them a better look; cheering to Englishmen, who were informed by their newspapers that an equidistant flight over Germany would have taken the planes past Berlin, Hamburg, the Krupp works at Essen; irritating to Germans, whose newspapers screamed "war-mongering." Before popular enthusiasm for the performance ebbed, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Died. Eugénie Avril de Sainte-Croix, 84, famed French feminist who was converted to woman suffrage by U. S. Suffragette Susan B. Anthony; in Menton, France. Feminist de Sainte-Croix's motto: "Not to permit women to descend to the morality of men, but rather to raise men to the morality of women...
Today's the day! At four o'clock Sophomores and Juniors descend upon Dick Harlow and his aids to add to the number of Freshman football hopefuls who have already been going through their paces for a full week in Briggs cage...
...seasons, this is the most baffling and uncertain. For a day, spring comes. And the snows melt. And the world is wet with winter's waning blood. Another morrow, and the wind shrieks again, and the cold rains descend, pelting back the vernal equinox to a more remote calendar page. Hour examinations, like so many scalping Comanches, are taking their bi-yearly toll. Concluding winter athletics are vieing desperately with commencing spring activities. Class elections are pitting friend against friend, while honor, influence, and politics set a dizzy pace. Seniors are searching wearily for a life-long job, and many...
...there are several explanations, principally that the Andover scheme had not proved successful when the report was distributed, and secondarily because of what Life magazine so colorfully termed their "fierce" scholarship. Also, there was doubtless some feeling that if nothing were done from below, a wind-fall would suddenly descend from above, and "authorities" would place a dining hall in their laps...