Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break forth from God's word and by the love which will not let us go, then 1950 will see a momentous turning point in Christian history...
...excruciatingly pleasant sensation to descend from your parch at game's end and to stride a purposefully through the crowd, flaunting press passes and demanding entrance to the locker rooms. The petty officials delegated to guard such sanctums are inevitably a suspicious, lot, and it is indeed pleasant to brush these minions aside and enter to mingle with the great. Perhaps it is such moments as these which lead droves of young men to enter that underpaid and overworked field which is journalism...
Leighton was not sure whether the disciplinary problem would descend to the College level. He admitted that if it does he will be "somewhat non-plussed...
...Certain of these efforts deserve comment: (1) Miss Hayworth can wear more clothes and still look under than any female this side of a Restoration book jacket. (2) She can get off a wall and into a man's arms in less time than it takes Leo Durocher to descend on a plate umpire. (3) Rita can achieve more in one glance than Mayor Curley in three terms. (4) She is the only actress in Hollywood who can boast of two relatives who are accomplished on the Spanish guitar, (These gentlemen are on display in the "Loves of Carmen...
...sail from Antwerp last week. The important cargo was the "bathyscaphe" designed by Professor Auguste ("Captain Nemo") Piccard, 64, of balloon fame.* In the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, the bathyscaphe will be lowered overboard with the professor and his coadventurer, Professor Max Cosyns, inside. Piccard expects to descend to a depth of 2½ miles...