Word: descent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John, who emigrated to America in 1630; then great-grandfather Paul, who was killed under Wolfe at Quebec; later grandfather Paul, who served in the Revolution; still later father Paul, Governor of Vermont; and most lately William Paul, the Senator and ex-Governor, still in the line of descent...
...heights and minor injuries. On that date the Army and Navy still had six craft in the air. By July 6 all but three had come down, Ralph Upson piloting the Detroit having had the most dangerous experience, when his gas bag split at 5,800 feet and a descent had to be made in the basket, supported by a parachute. Lieutenant Robert Olmstead, in charge of an Army balloon, landed in New York State with apparently the best record of 500 miles...
Antwerp's great Rubens treasure is the trio hung in her Cathedral: The Descent from the Cross, The Elevation of the Cross, The Assumption...
...Antwerp which gave Rubens his two beautiful wives, Isabella Brant and Helena Fourment; and, although Rubens' male line is extinct, more than 100 great families of Belgium and the rest of Europe claim descent from him on the distaff side...
...nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies of the stage prevented the commissioner from adding the names of all American citizens of British ancestry who are not ashamed of their forbears, and leaving among the virtuous and patriotic only such Americans as claim unadulterated European, Asiatic or African descent...