Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Townsend Copeland, "Copey" to thousands of Harvard alumni, ideal of the Harvard Club of New York, nationally known teacher and connoisseur of literature, editor of "The Copeland Reader", and, last but not least, high priest of the Yard, has announced that he will descend from the Hollis empyrean and give his annual Christian reading in the Union for members of the Freshman Class alone...
...Dulled with terror, we realized the terrible disaster. With a rope we fixed the porter to the rock over which the rest of the rope was double slung. We proceeded to Camp Eight, where we recalled Hartmann and Dr. Wien, for the whole party to descend and search for our poor friends. Six in all passed the night on an ice ledge a metre wide on the range of the couloir. Next day almost the entire expedition gathered in the highest basin of the Zemu Glacier...
Dignitaries meeting Vaclav Pallier, Czechoslovakian Minister to Hungary, at the railway station in Budapest, were astonished to see him descend from the train clad only in pajamas. He explained that his trousers had been stolen overnight; he had no others with him. The trousers were found later in a cornfield. The Minister's pocketbook was not in them...
...Cartersville, Ga. a two-year-old boy fell into a well. His mother, Mrs. Wesley Scott, 18, hastily knotted together a number of ropes, started to descend by the improvised life line. The rope broke and she fell into the water, seizing the baby as she struck the surface. For three hours she cried for help, until passersby heard, rescued mother and child...
...securely on the plane's tail surfaces. Twenty feet below the unhappy soldier dangled, swinging out behind the speeding plane like the weighted tail of a kite, while the cursing pilot struggled to stabilize the ship. At length the officer signalled to Osborne to cut himself loose and descend by the emergency 'chute strapped upon his chest. But Private Osborne had no knife. Then another plane flew up, maneuvered above Osborne while an officer lowered a sandbag to which a knife was tied. After a half-hour's effort, Osborne caught the knife, freed himself, opened...