Word: descends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several thousand people will descend on Wellesley at 10:45 a.m. today to witness the Inauguration Exercises officially inducting Margaret Clapp as eighth president of the College. Provost Buck, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and Radcliffe's President Jordan will comprise part of the delegation from 86 colleges...
...tennis club . . . When I had reached the little park on Shipka Street, I was overtaken and passed by a civilian on a bicycle that did not bear any license plate, a matter which came instantly to my attention. This person crossed my line of progress, summoned me to descend, asked for my name and ordered me to walk alongside of him up Shipka Street...
...either his secretary, Miss Cordier, or his receptionist, Mrs. Hendryson, has the sniffles, he invariably stops to commiserate and give a little advice on cold remedies. But last week, affable Superintendent Oberholtzer was a trifle pressed. From all over the U.S., a thousand of his colleagues were about to descend upon him for one of the important educational conferences of the year...
...state, although there were no marks on him. The prosecutor began to read from Father Kalojera's "confession." The priest interrupted: "With your tortures, I didn't know what I was saying." The judge slammed his gavel. "How dare you suggest that our forces of security would descend to inhuman methods?" Father Kalojera replied: "They put electric wires in my mouth and down my throat, and then switched on the current...