Word: descent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have one of their reporters here as my guest. He will stay as long as he wants. There is nothing like a sudden descent from a balloon to warm up international understanding...
...when Dr. William Beebe made his record ocean descent in his baby blue Bathysphere off Bermuda, he had to stop at 3,028 feet because the cable was about to run out. As he crawled out on deck after being pulled up, Scientist Beebe announced: "I'll tell the world that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives which really have no scientific value...
...Panama, the Bahamas and Australia, plus combat photography in the Philippines (as a Navy lieutenant), Barton went at it again on his own. Off the California coast, 35 miles southwest of Santa Barbara, he went down alone in his Benthoscope.* and broke the Beebe-Barton record with a descent to 4,500 feet, the deepest that any living man has ever gone under...
Into the Parlor. Last year Olsen & Johnson invaded Europe to satisfy a lifetime ambition to play in Scandinavia (Olsen is of Norwegian descent; Johnson, Swedish). They were so successful in London that the show never got to the Continent. One Hellzapoppin road company is still in England; another is touring New Zealand. Both men have invested their huge earnings (they grossed $227,000 in 16 nights in Chicago; $387,000 in 14 days in Toronto) in real estate and in such enterprises as a string of frozen-custard stands on Long Island and an ice-skating rink in California...
...tall, slender, brown-haired, and the "most avid reader" in his class, he is using our material to prepare a preliminary brief and has set out to get more information. In this quest he is working closely with the "defendant," a twelve-year-old seventh-grader of Italian descent, who has taken his role seriously enough to write to family relatives in Sicily and to Giuliano himself (no reply, as yet). Meanwhile, he is coaching his three witnesses in their testimony...