Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table, boasts a pool table (one, count 'em, one.) It is true, that the present cues are in various states of degeneration, but there is a movement on foot to replace these with new ones, and when the time comes for the members of the Class of '40 to descend upon the Houses, this department ought to be in ship shape...
...clock this afternoon there will descend the steep steps of Sever 11 a strong-jawed, stern-faced figure, dressed picturesquely in chaps, boots, broad sombrero, and all the other parapherhalia of the Western plains. His spurs will catch on the stairs and twirl with a merry ring; his lasso will describe lazy circles over the heads of the admiring assembly. Knox Chandler, the Cowboy Professor, will mount the platform nonchantly and present his opinions in the most vigorous dialect of the youthful American language...
...Down Strike, suddenly boomed by the General Motors trouble last December as a new phenomenon in U. S. labor warfare, seemed last week to descend from its peak of the week before (TIME, March 1) almost as rapidly as it had risen. The Sit-Down Strike, as an instrument of Labor policy, was impressively sat upon in many places. It had lost its surprise value as police and employers learned more about combatting it. It was being tried on hard-boiled firms which were not so utterly dependent on public sympathy as General Motors and which could afford to take...
...sort of life led by King Edward and Mrs. Simpson accurately. Her life up to Mrs. Simpson's meeting with Edward VIII was inconsequential to a degree, has never been rehearsed in TIME. She was born in one of those typical Southern families who all more or less descend from William the Conqueror, but Wallis Varfield was not going to spend her life talking about her family. She resolved early to make men her career, and in 40 years reached the top-or almost. No man she careered is known to have ever said a word...
When Landon is elected, the College will be informed of the event by the appearance of a meteor in the western sky describing an are from south to north, following which an American flag will descend. If Roosevelt should win, the flag will be thrown away...