Word: descends
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...Alpine spring. "There was still snow upon the summit of the Lady in White, which rose over the dark lake, dwarfing it as the cathedral tower dwarfs the rain puddle. . . ." While a detachment of U.S. troops is making a bordello out of the village inn, the SS men descend from the pine forests to seize Gustave and the Wiedemeyers...
...craftsmen he has composed of brass and iron. . . . If the son of a gold or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful toward the child because he has to descend in the scale . . . just as there may be sons of artisans who having an admixture of gold and silver in them, are raised to honor. . . . For an oracle says that when a man of brass or iron guards the State, it will be destroyed...
...Tech of last Friday, there were such phrases as "Is the Harvard Crimson so bound up in national politics that it cannot descend from its lofty perch to meddle in petty school affairs?" and "The Tech will carry the battle to the very halls of the State Legislature and will pursue this cause until cause until definite action has been taken...
...CRIMSON seems to have found it good "copy" to descend to the level of Hearst editorializing. There are such sentences as: The years of lopsided representation, of murky and hazy financial activity, of membership practices that smack of Sigma Chi and the Whiffenpoofs, have neutralized the Council's sincere efforts at constructive leadership...
After advertising their respective orhonored tales to a packed auditorium ganizations and plying the round of time-on the third floor of PBH, the orators had to descend to the first-floor parlor to address another group equally crowded...