Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligent publicist, he had arranged for a radio broadcast of his descent. A telephone line ran between the bathysphere and the tug Freedom. So the world heard a description which, while less Shelleyesque than Professor Piccard's stratospheric exuberances (TIME, Aug. 29), ran in the same strain of ecstasy...
...Angriff, Hitlerite paper of deformed, bitter little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, published an article to prove that Col. Düsterberg, who frequently has indulged in Jew-baiting, really had a Jewish grandfather, Selig Abraham Düsterberg. According to Der Angriff Col. Düsterberg's grandmother was of Jewish descent too, his great-grandfather was administrator of the Jewish culture society in Paderborn in 1824. Immediately followed a despatch from the Jewish Tele graph Agency that Col. Düsterberg had resigned his position with the following bitter announcement: "I actually originated from Jews, but I have only now learned the fact...
...with excitement as the balloon is being readied at Dubendorf Airdrome, Zurich. He has his long-awaited assurance of at least 18 hours of good weather. Not only must he be sure of fair skies to receive him. but also that no layer of clouds shall blind his descent. Now the great yellow cotton bag, of 14,000 cu. ft. capacity, is laid carer fully out on the field by 100 workmen, sweating under a blazing sun. The shroud lines which support the spherical aluminum gondola are straightened out with meticulous care. In the cool of night hydrogen...
...ball 7 ft. in diameter which can be hermetically sealed from within. Instead of only two observation portholes it has eight, like an eyeball with eight pupils. The portholes afford not only a better view of the surroundings but a clear view of the gasbag above, so that the descent valves may be kept untangled. Another innovation: the entry port may be reclosed from the inside, even if opened during flight. Instead of being painted half white, half black, like the old gondola, the new one is all white enamel. Last year the black half had been painted to attract...
...Jean Schlumberger -Dodd, Mead. When old Madame Colombe dies peacefully in her bed at Saint Saturnin. her children Louis. Jourdaine, Nicholas speculate on the significance of her departure. None of them anticipates its most ghastly consequence: their father, deprived of his wife's tactful authority, begins a quavering descent into senile decay. The first sign comes when Nicholas goes to bring old William Colombe to the death bed. The old man snores loudly, pretends to be asleep. After his wife's funeral, he persuades an aging adventuress to remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry...