Word: descending
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speed of the heavier-than-air machine. It is on the engine that French scientists are now putting their greatest efforts. To get the maximum horse-power with a minimum weight is the present problem of aeronautics. If the engine ceases to supply power the aeroplane has to descend and if this happens over a country devoid of suitable landing places the results are bound to be serious...
...here show just as much criminal negil- gence. In each room on the upper stories of the Yard buildings--this is true at least of Matthews, I am not certain as to the others--there is one and only one rope fire escape, by which one person could probably descend in safety. It is so arranged that it cannot be used a second time without pulling the entire length of the rope through a device which grips it tightly (preventing the descent from being too rapid). This would take at least ten minutes after the seat of the escape...
Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous...