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Word: descends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed is arrested by the friction of the air, a small parachute will come out; finally a large chute will deploy and float the man in his capsule. Slowly, he will descend at about 30 ft. per second until he is let down, almost gently, in the Gulf of Mexico. There he will be rescued by a waiting ship of the U.S. Navy and brought back-a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A New Human Experience | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...good one, because tragedy is something more than an orchestration of the steady drip, drip of human misery. Even Pirandello, while giving their story more attention than it deserves, is more interested in their status as Characters and in their relation to the troupe of Actors upon whom they descend...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Six Characters in Search of an Author | 3/5/1959 | See Source »

...aqualung and famed deep sea diver, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Potentials of Undersea Exploration" tonight at 8 p.m. in Burr Lecture Hall B. Cousteau, author of "The Silent World," is Director of the Oceanographic Institute in Monaco. He also invented a two-man submarine which can descend over half a mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cousteau to Speak | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...given the symbolic Club ties and front door keys. On most occasions, initiation nights turn ultimately into alcoholic brawls, and the University Police place them high on their winter social calendar. The Cambridge Fire Department also is usually summoned to provide entertainment for this event. Hook and ladder teams descend noisily on the Fly Club in response to false alarms turned in from the box on the Fly's wall by gleeful members of rival clubs...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER 22, 1958, BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON | Title: The Final Clubs: Little Bastions of Society In a University World that No Longer Cares | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Several times a day models descend the stairs to the platform over the pool for a fashion show--one of the biggest crowd pullers of the entire Exposition. The clothes modeled are all in a low-price range, to substantiate the claim of presenting "average" American life...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Impressions of the Brussels Exposition: Diversities, Faults Typify 'World, '58' | 10/4/1958 | See Source »

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