Word: descending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Henry Tawney, economic henchman of Ramsay MacDonald, reviewed the British Labor movement: "We may be on the verge of another watershed, analogous to that of the Reform Bill, whence new streams will descend to carve English political scenery into new shapes...
...Author. Harriet Lummis Smith, author of much juvenile literature, started work in her Philadelphia studio as soon as the publishers decided that Mrs. Porter's mantle was to descend upon her. Said she: "I have the same outlook on life [as Mrs. Porter] -a wholesome and cheerful outlook - and I flatter myself that I, too, have a sense of humor...
After Kalinin had spoken, the delegates were permitted to descend into the tomb and view the body of Lenin through the heavy glass cover of the red coffin. Outside the proletariat sang revolutionary songs...
...between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over the world about 4½ degrees F. If this heat loss should become only twice as great, it is estimated that the permanent polar ice cap would descend over the subarctic and upper temperate zones. Canada would, become almost uninhabitable. Climates everywhere are now upset. Drought is threatening in India and California. These changes in the solar constant appear to move in cycles of about three years. Whether they have any relation to the sun spots...
...descend from the general to the specific, when the late Mr. Longfellew composed his eulogy on the Village Smithy, he was the unwitting founder of two conflicting schools of thought. The first, which had until yesterday been coldly unaware of the existence of the other, has always maintained and there have been none to venture a contradiction that the smithy stood on Brattle Street beneath what is now the Sign of the Galloping Stallion...