Word: descent
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gondola. A carrier to the fringe of space. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Descent to the Future. high wrangler. Cambridge University term for a top mathematician. See BOOKS, Wrangler's World...
These men are laborers used by the U.S. armed forces for minor construction work in 1945 on the island of Tinian. Most of them were of Korean descent, transported to the Marianas for use in the sugar-cane fields. I admired their ability to squat all day while shaping the coral for the dwarf wall they were building. Even during their rest period they would hunker, sophisticated style...
Another mystifying new excavation area, the so-called "City Gates" or "CG", had already caught the interest of the Princeton group back in 1914. In 1958, the sharpness of the descent of the wall's structure required the aid of a bulldozer and crane and it was not until this past summer that the archaeologists were able to uncover much of the construction. It now appears that "CG" was made into an elaborate bath by the Romans with furnace for heating and an intricate piping system to bring the water of the torrent, the Patoclus, to the baths. Another major...
...encouraging to the Gluecks to find that although the SPT was compiled on the basis of underprivileged Boston boys largely of English, Italian, and Irish descent and of Protestant and Catholic religions, it operated so well on a sample of New York Jewish boys...
...This was the beginning of the descent into the abyss," said the Frankfurter Nene Presse in a special issue commemorating September1, 1939. "We and not Hitler alone-that is the nagging part of our memories." declared the Deutsche Zeitung. "Before history we are responsible, too, because Hitler came to power by the parliamentary route and received overwhelming majorities in all the plebiscites, was met everywhere with frenetic cheers." Wrote the weekly Die Zeit: "We want to say it clearly: Germany has sinned against Poland...