Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real Boston, an "ethnic minority" conscious that the prisoners are communists and foreigners. It contrasts this state of things with the political temper of Chicago where it finds, an agglomerate ethnic majority, conscious that another and more aristocratic portion of the city is Anglo-Saxon and descend from grandparents native born, has just elected as mayor, one who jollied and humored them...
Letting gas out of his balloon, Captain Gray began to descend. At 8,000 feet, he found himself falling faster than would be pleasant for a landing, so he adjusted his parachute, stepped out into nothingness, floated to the ground uninjured at Golden Gate, Ill., 100 miles from Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.) his starting point. His trip to the outer edge of the world and back took two and one-half hours...
...appointed time, those who have the call to teach descend from their citadel. ... An All Souls in every American university . . . might conceivably change the course of American civilization for the better...
...airplanes hooked up like railroad express cars. As the flying train passes over a city, the rear plane is uncoupled. It circles noiselessly to earth. Passengers alight. Their train has vanished down the sky to leave other passengers at other cities. At some terminal city the "locomotive" will descend. ... In an experiment at Karlsruhe, a motorless glider, manned by a pilot, was successfully towed aloft and cut free and brought to earth. Engineers predicted the rest. Needing very little velocity to stay aloft, several gliders would be no great drag on a multi-motored ship, the chief problem lying...
...until the hospital was full; then they were placed in cabins. At Panama 167 were sick of influenza. Eleven men developed mumps, infectious disease that added to fear aboard. To restrain the epidemic officers forbade enlisted men to mount above the main deck, first-class passengers to descend from the promenade. Continuous entertainment kept morale...