Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bringing more culture to the inhabitants of the eastern side of the city. During the war, he was located in the front-line trenches as a German officer, and it is because of this service that he has not been ousted from his professorship, although he is of Jewish descent...
...even believe that in the course of countless ages the two human eyes will come closer and closer together, the bridge of the nose will further diminish and sink (just as the animal snout, ' man's line of descent, has been doing for aeons of time) and finally that man's two eyes will again become one-just one large, central, cyclopean eye. It is likely that the merely servient (left) eye will shrink away (as the pineal eye has already done) so that the right eye will become the cyclopean. Certain it is that the left...
...quiet psychological narratives. Talifer, fitting with predictable neatness into its appropriate place in the Robinson canon, adds little, detracts not at all, from the reputation its author's earlier books have won him. Repeating in tempo and style its immediate predecessors, it marks another notch in his descent into poetic...
...about two hours the ground station received a radio flash from the Stratostat: it had passed Piccard's world record of 10 mi., was still climbing! Another three hours, and the U. S. S. R. had pulled itself up to 11.8 mi., was ready to come down. The descent went as smoothly as the ascent, the U. S. S. R. landing lightly in a meadow about 60 mi. from Moscow. Fully half the 80,000 population of Kolomna, carefully primed by Dictator Stalin's propagandists to witness a great scientific conquest by their nation, poured across the Moscow...
Schieffelin & Co., who have been liquor merchants for 139 years, lately obtained the agency for Hennessy ("* * *") brandies and Teacher's Scotch whiskey ( Highland Cream ). Both James Hennessy & Co. of Cognac, France and Schieffelin & Co. of Manhattan are under the management of the sixth generation in direct descent of their respective founders...