Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Object. The expedition will go to India this spring, ascend the Indus and establish a base in the Vale of Kashmir about May. Mr. Cherrie is to be the advance agent, preparing arrangements there before the Roosevelts arrive. In early May or June, as soon as the snow melts from the passes of the Himalayas, the party will cross and continue its explorations on the plateau of Pamir and beyond toward the Tian Shan Mountains...
...aeronauts were practically the only ones who got any pictures. But their efforts were not highly successful. The results of using hand cameras in rapidly moving planes were not satisfactory. The apparatus has been improved, however, and better results are expected this time from airplanes, which will ascend at Dayton. Likewise the dirigibles Shenandoah and Los Angeles are expected to take the air this year and go out to sea, where the sun will be higher than on land at the time of the eclipse; in addition, they will have the advantage of slower movement than airplanes...
...having had no appropriation from Congress. Lieut. W. H. Mills in a Verville-Sperry racer, Lieut. W. H. Brookley in a Curtiss R-6, and Lieut. Rex Stoner in a Curtiss PW-8-A were the first three to fly to a point ten miles behind the start and ascend in the customary "tower" from which the racers plunge down to the starting pylon at maximum speed. Last to leave the ground was Captain Burt E. Skeel, his 520-horse Curtiss R-6 leaping up with a great burst of power. Said the crowd: "There goes the winner...
...Constantinople, Vali (Governor) Dr. Adran Bey, went to the Dolma Baghche Palace, home of the Calif. He there demanded to see the Calif in the Throne Room. When the Calif arrived, the Vali ordered him to ascend the throne, read the decision of the Grand National Assembly to him, ordered him to descend the throne and pack his things...
...pieces rise to the remotest inkling of the grandeurs of the original. Especially is this true of the Shakesperian plays made into operas. Both librettos and music are sad mirrorings. Verdi's Otello and Falstaff, with their scholarly librettos by Boito are the only operatic compositions that ascend within sight of Shakespeare. They are not faithful to the poet in spirit-they sober down his great madness, adding to it a classical and austere elegance of form...