Word: descending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swedes were glad: The Roerichs descend from Swedes who a thousand years ago founded the Russian empire...
...Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec. Manifestly they either were lost or deliberately returning toward Europe. Near Cape Finisterre, clogging in a gasoline feed pipe forced them to descend, the impact smashing the plane's wings. The duo, swimming near the disabled plane, were immediately rescued by the crew of the Samos. They had described a giant arc over the Atlantic; with a minimum cruising speed of 90 miles per hour, they must in their 36 hours...
Surveying triumphantly the Parliamentary order thus restored, President Smith was about to descend from the balcony when a Welsh Communist, Arthur Horner, onetime amateur lightweight boxing champion of South Wales, rushed up the aisle belligerently shouting, "I'm in on this fight...
...benefit meet with the most complete neglect, as witness the substantial deficit remaining to Mr. Pyle after the completion of his cross country "bunion derby". In Nebraska another attempted parade has just fallen through. This time it is the calvacade of indignant farmers in autos that was expected to descend upon Kansas City and impress upon the Republican Convention gathered there a sense of their wrongs. The leaders started gallantly out in every town to "raise the countryside" but the farmers were too busy planning so the organizers had to make their own way to the convention without an escort...
...produced? That crusader for the better things of the theater. Walter Hampden, has already done successful battle with Shakespeare, Then and Browning and departed for other regions. Eva in Gallienne, leader of the New York Civic Repertory Theater, sill touches the tragic depths at the Hollis, and to descend a moment from the sublime, last night saw the opening of Able's Irish Rose with the "original New York company". Last but probably most important on the list comes the Gilbert and Sullivan revival which will share interest with the coming finals after this week...