Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clear to anyone who has spent with the hum of engines throbbing in his ears, even three hours in the air. Our wonder increases when we consider that this longest flight yet attempted was made in a plane with only one engine, little chance of floating if forced to descend, still less of being picked up, and a safe landing next to impossible...
...this school. After a few short flights to demonstrate his ability and to learn the machine, he was sent up for practice in spiraling. For this you ascend to 1,000 metres and from that altitude you spiral down to 600 metres where you stop the spiral and descend to the ground in normal and wide turns. He commenced his spirals normally, but, when at 600 metres, he did not stop. At about this altitude the machine "slipped off on a wing" (side-slipped) and then went into a nose drive. It struck the ground in this attitude. Two possible...
...jollity, during the days of undergraduate enrolment in the University. Let 1916 rally to the support of the cause; let 1916 gather en masse in the wee small hours of the morning; let 1916, to a man, don the habiliments of the picnicker and swell the throng which will descend upon the land of heretofore unknown and untasted joys...
...Union last evening to hear Dr. Fitch, the handbook, having no definite custodian, has strayed off the road into oblivion somewhere between here and last September. It was established with an ideal worthy of a better fate. If the Territorial Clubs are insistent upon dying, it will, we suppose, descend eventually to that already overburdened organization--the Student Council--for support. But if the Territorial Clubs can revive sufficiently to lay the responsibility of discovering the erring booklet on a committee of three or four men, the same aim may be accomplished with infinitely more credit to the Federation...