Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innumerable attitudes which have been taken towards the educational avalanche which commences its precipitous descent late in September, there is none, perhaps, more harmful than that which assumes that only an indifferent push is needed to start the mossy stones rolling, and that thereafter the perpetrators of this annual landslide need only sit back and direct the courses which the little stones choose to take...
...reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police and of the sensational press. He grew up with many a bluecoat in Corktown, Detroit's Irish settlement, where he was raised (although he is Canadian-born, of Scotch descent). He knows sensational newspapers because for 30 years they have been his opposition (in the form of Hearst's Times, Macfadden's defunct Daily). At 17 "Bing" Bingay started as an office boy on the Scripps-founded Detroit News. He left as managing editor four years ago, held...
...floor of the Virgin River Canyon in glittering pinks, whites and vermilions. The Great White Throne of Zion has a history as awesome as its name. Only two men have ever stood in the forest which caps its flat and crumbly sides. One was so unnerved by the descent that he was killed on an easier climb two days later. The other fell on the way down, survived only to become a nervous wreck...
Mickey Mouse's creator, Walter ("Walt") Disney is a slim, sharp-faced young man (31) of Irish-German descent. His father, a contractor, let him study drawing for a few months at the Chicago Art Institute before the family moved to Kansas City. He spent six years of his childhood on a Missouri farm watching the animal ancestors of Mickey's pals. In school he early learned the schoolboy trick of drawing figures on the margins of his textbooks, graduating the poses on succeeding pages so that when he flipped the leaves rapidly, the figures seemed to move...
...hours the Macon flew in the vicinity of her dock at Akron, then headed northwest to circle Cleveland. Clevelanders saw her shining fat stern disappear over Lake Erie. At sunset she was back at Akron where a smoke bomb and two green flares signaled her descent in the twilight...