Word: descent
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...Princes and princesses were numerous in Tsarist Russia. As Oxford's scholarly Walter Alison Phillips wrote before the War: "The Russian title of 'prince' (knyaz) implies undoubted descent from the great reigning houses of Russia, Poland and Lithuania; but the title descends to all male children, none of whom is entitled to represent it par excellence. There may be three or four hundred princes bearing the same distinguished name; of these some may be great nobles, but others are not seldom found in quite humble capacities-waiters or droshky-drivers. The title in itself.has little social value...
When books by Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper first appeared, they bore the imprint of G. P. Putnam who started publishing in 1837. Now oldest of U. S. publishing houses of direct descent is G. P. Putnam's Sons, its management having passed to the third generation. Last week the flux that has lately been tossing the book industry about seized this venerable firm...
...Long Live the King!" Disembarking in a dismal drizzle Their Majesties acknowledged rousing shouts of "Lengi Lift Konungur Bor" ("Long Live Our King") from their Icelandic subjects while not a few of the thousand or more U. S. citizens present (mostly of Icelandic parentage or descent) shouted "Long live the King!" Few minutes afterwards the Swedish kust-pansarfartyg (coast-defense-ship) Oscar II landed H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Because a daughter has just been born to his wife, and because just before that their residence burned to the ground, H. R. H. Crown Prince Olav of Norway...
Autogiro. Not to be confused with the helicopter is the Cierva Autogiro which, while capable of vertical descent, cannot take off without a short run and cannot hover indefinitely (TIME, Sept. 2). Officials of Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. of America declared last week that commercial production would be begun at Willow Grove, Pa., in August or September...
...heaven, will mark the beginning of this period; that during this time, the wicked will be dead on this earth, Satan and his angels will be confined here in solitude, and the righteous will be in heaven with Christ, sitting in confirmatory judgment on the wicked; that the descent of the New Jerusalem from heaven to this earth with Christ and the righteous, the Second Resurrection (the resurrection of the wicked), the loosing of Satan, the annihilation of sin and sinners in a lake of fire, and the purification of this world by fire, will mark its close...