Word: descends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numbers of the meeting considerably above the limits of the Assembly proper, which consists of some 300 members. It is expected that the seating capacity of Alumnae Hall, Pembroke's large new auditorium, will be taxed to the utmost in order to accommodate the entire assemblage. Students will descend upon Providence from 25 eastern colleges: from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Brown, Dartmouth, Colby, Salem Normal, Vermont, Rhode Island State, Connecticut College for Women, Boston University, Springfield, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, Pembroke, Wheaton, Pine Manor, Massachusetts State, Clark, and Tufts
...ward off suicidal despair Spengler recommends the psychological attitude of the Roman soldier who died at his post in Pompeii. When the volcano under civilization explodes, and the burning dust begins to descend, the more honorable Spenglerian carnivores will take it standing, polish up their buttons as the lava rises. With its men all dead but its honorable buttons bright, Western civilization can then rest forever on its yews...
...possible, by the boys themselves, if not, then by the authorities. Hitherto this species of misconduct has been dealt with leniently by both sets of authorities. It is a difficult matter for the police to handle because it is never clear who is primarily responsible. When the police descend, they descend upon the just and the unjust alike. The University authorities would prefer to assume that Harvard undergraduates are adults, and can be frusted to go to Boston and return without the company of nurses or attendants. Harvard undergraduates have, in effect, asked to be so treated. They are supposed...
...First to descend the steel ladder to make his inspection was 33-year-old John...
...police do everything in their power to make it difficult for the morbid to see an execution. Last week strong police cordons blocked off the street 200 yards on either side of the Widow. Gaping butchers' boys peered over policemen's shoulders to see the tiny figure descend from a horse-drawn van. refuse the traditional cigar and glass of rum. There was a huddle round the base of the guillotine, then the knife crashed down as a church bell struck seven...