Word: descent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Territory of Hawaii, people of Asiatic descent make up almost half the islands' 540,000 population. But in the tight little islands' economy, dominated by the sugar-factoring "Big Five," they have had little chance to get rich-until Ruddy Fah Tongg came along. Ruddy showed them...
...shall be inviolable" and "all men shall be equal before the law," states the constitution's bill of rights. It provides for a free press, free assembly and inviolability of a man's home. It says: "No one may be prejudiced or privileged because of his sex, descent, race, language, homeland or origin, faith, or his religious and political opinions...
Then the Worker's editors discovered that Boysen was of Puerto Rican descent. The issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...
This fragment was presented to us be an ancient oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoin Downs. We quote in part...
Sustaining Love. Descent into Hell is a development of Williams' reverent conviction that men must bear one another's burdens; that the universe of humanity includes both the living and the dead; that lost and drifting spirits among the dead may still be sustained by the charitable love of living...