Word: descent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rupprecht conducts himself at present as an ordinary citizen; though he entertained handsomely at Munich recently a delegation of U. S. World War veterans of German descent who came to pay their respects to a Feldmarschall against whose troops some of them had fought...
William Holmes McGuffey, born in Washington County, Pa., in 1800, son of an Indian scout of Scotch descent, attended the Old Stone Academy at Darlington, Pa., and .Washington College. He won fame as "mental philosopher" of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and at Ohio University (then as now at Athens, Ohio) and the University of Virginia. He formulated Ohio's school laws, organized Ohio's teachers; married twice, "preached 3,000 sermons but never wrote one"* and was as famed in person as in publication...
...Germany and the U. S. are not represented. *First three letters of the French word panne, meaning "difficulty." The English flying term, "pancake," a verb describing a method of coming to earth with supporting surfaces of the ship flattened to retard the descent and prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster though fliers are sometimes obliged to "pancake" when damage to their controls or weather and ground conditions make other tactics impossible. šThe original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these...
...McAdoo, Secretary of tha Treasury under Wilson (1913-18), began not only to earn money but also to snatch for the mantle hia father-in-law had dropped. He missed it, rent the Democratic party. That other William, Bryan the Great Commoner, died in Dayton, Tenn., still denying his descent from long-tailed ancestors; with him vanished a sonorous power, which, for nearly 30 years had sometimes led and had always disturbed the Democratic party...
...gallant Major explained that a faulty oil pipe had caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while...