Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spain, considering her size, has always represented the nadir of news value among European countries but it was only necessary for her to descend into the same sort of social disorder and barbaric cruelty as constitute my facts about Venezuelan political history to achieve front-page spreads in every newspaper...
...flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight to the other end of the flat stick. The round stick, held vertically, will then support the flat stick and its weight horizontally from its top, yet jiggling the weight will cause the flat stick, still horizontal, to descend slowly to the base of the other...
...stick. He remained horizontal in the air for about four minutes. The tent was then put back. . . . Pat and I could see, through the thin wall of the tent, Subbayah still suspended in the air. After about a minute he appeared to sway, and then very slowly began to descend, still in a horizontal position. He took about five minutes to move from the top of the stick to the ground, a distance of about three feet. Evidently we were not meant to see this part of the performance, or it would all have been done in the open...
...Washington last week. Some 7,000 women, 18 to 80, arrived by bus, car and rail from all parts of the nation. To give the affair an international tone, there were also women from Ceylon, Rhodesia, Latvia, 19 other countries, who joined this largest female host ever to descend on Washington. For five days at Constitution Hall and all over the District of Columbia the Country Women had a high old time under the vague, idealistic auspices of promoting "The will to peace...
...between France, Britain, Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, notably omitting Germany, Italy and Poland. Just how tough a job of statesmanship M. Blum had set himself was indicated last week by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "The chief problem confronting . . . Leon Blum, is whether France is to ... descend to the rank of a third-rate power. ... It is safe to say that never since the end of the Franco-Prussian war has Europe had less confidence in the ability of France to maintain its present position. As for the very dominant position taken naturally by France immediately after...