Word: descendents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every year while boardwalks and the cold of approaching winter descend upon the college there comes to life a pleasant tradition of the pre-holiday season--the Faculty Teas. This afternoon and on successive Friday afternoons in the Living Room of the Union the members of the various departments and their wives will meet whatever students appreciate this opportunity to mingle with their faculty in an informal, extra-curricular manner. A chance is thus given for both to know each other better than continuous weeks in classroom or lecture can allow. Indeed, friendships, often considered unattainable, have begun in this...
...plane moved so fast that it seemed foolish to suppose that the solemn and magnificent music bore any relation to its maneuvers. Suddenly it banked, began to plunge down. An officer on Mitchell Field watched it descend. This machine, a 1,400 horsepower Curtiss racer, with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good...
...signs were that the French and Spanish would make a tremendous effort to compel Abd-el-Krim to submit before the October rains descend to put an end to operations for the winter. It seemed unlikely, however, that they could accomplish so much in so short a time...
...those who are in authority disapprove more and more that expensive school machinery should lie idle for many summer weeks, particularly in view of the number of children whose fathers do not make hay, and of the congestion that exists when all children, country-goers and city-dwellers alike, descend upon the schools in a body every September...
...eight hours, at 85 miles an hour, they flew, always north. They had used nearly half their gasoline. If the planes were ever to take them home again, they must descend. And there below them the first streak of blue seen in eight hours indicated water, a "lead" in the pack ice. Down nosed Amundsen in the N-25, the N24 following suit. Suddenly, a break in the steady roar of the motors, as startling as a shout, smote Amundsen's ear. N-25's engine had died. The pilot, Riiser-Larsen, now must land wherever he could...