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Word: ascends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ascend the stairs, we will notice the excellent murals on either side of the entrance to the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room. The murals are works of John Singer Sargent and were made possible by an anonymous donor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Most Imposing Building in Yard | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...valuable document in either fiction or non-fiction lists. It is, in short, a mirror of the early Victorian era. In the character of Frances Harcourt the reader is led through the highways and byways of that period when the tiny, buxom, fairy-Queen Victoria was about to ascend the throne of England. Fanny, a native of Norfolk, prepares her pilgrimage to London to see the coronation which was to occur sometime that summer; no one seemed to know exactly when...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/27/1937 | See Source »

...their fifth and final climb of the year, the Mountaineering Club will ascend Pinnacle Mountain in Huntington's Ravine this Sunday. The climbers will stay at the Mountaineering Club cabin over the weekend and will start out on the all day sabbath jaunt under the leadership of Dana B. Durand, instructor in History and Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineering Club Makes Fifth Climb of Year Sunday | 5/21/1937 | See Source »

...have gathered to attack Asgard, the home of the Gods. They are shown on the bridge, Biforst, which is built of air and water and is protected by red fire flaming on its edge. The frost giants and mountain giants ever seek to capture the bridge so they may ascend to Asgard and overcome the gods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

...Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their life on the "Astral" plane, from which eventually they may ascend to a "Spiritual" plane. Spirit Brandon broadly corroborates the view held by many Spiritualists: The Astral plane is divided into nations corresponding to those of the world below. On that plane, he implies, spirits speak the same languages they spoke on Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: After Death | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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