Word: descent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evolution, which in any way discredits man's descent from an original Adam, was ousted, root and branch, from the schools of North Carolina (TIME, Feb. 4). National controversy on this action produced the following defence...
Despite a precipitous descent to the floor following a right to the jaw in the sixth round of his fight with Young Norfolk, New Orleans Negro heavyweight, Battling Siki took the decision...
Some may possibly think it strange that a Latin can be an authority on a poet so peculiarly. Anglo-Saxon as Shakespeare. These same people, however, take it for granted that men of northern descent are competent to treat the Romance literatures. Aside from the great Teutonic students of the classics, one can still find men like Lowell, Longfellow, or Grandgent, whose names are inseparably connected with so typical a national figure as Dante. And Dante's influence on his country has been as great or greater than that of Shakespeare on England. The fact is that the world...
...makes the descent slow. Duty on spirits is quadrupled; spirits may not be drunk in public; no new bars are to be opened; public drunkenness is taboo. Persons opening new bars are liable to confiscation of their installation, a fine of between $75 and $750 and imprisonment for from six months to two years. Persons using spirituous liquors in public are liable to a fine of between $5 and $75; arrested drunkards can be fined from $35 to $375 or can be imprisoned for from one month to one year...
...Passos is of Portuguese descent through his father, who was a prominent New York corporation lawyer. Like William MeFee, he was born on the ocean. Some of his early youth was spent in England, where he went to school for a time. He attended Harvard but was not graduated. His War record is somewhat complicated. He enlisted in the Morgan-Harjes ambulance unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went...