Word: descent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After unsuccessful attempts by Shirley Curtis '51 to stage a mock escape by fire rope and window steps, Marilyn Grube '51 accomplished the three-story descent in a timed two minutes and 55 seconds. Observers calculated the time needed by two girls under ordinary conditions as nine minutes...
Serious critics, nevertheless, were entitled to mourn the descent of MacLeish's style from such elevation to the vague patriotic fretting and bad verse that affairs of state seemed to stimulate...
...plane had shown on Middle Scope, whose operator picked up: "Decrease rate of descent to 400 and maintain it constant . . . Lower your landing gear ..." Then Final Scope took over: "Change course to three four eight degrees. You're high on the glide path . . . Level off. Steady . . . You're on the glide path...
...your June 7 issue appears one legend as to the origin of the gypsy clan. Here is another one which was taught the children of Ukrainian descent in Austria-Hungary...
...Prescribed rate of landing descent for U.S. airliners: 500 feet per minute...