Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the honor to represent in this country the government of a people of over 120,000,000 population, of whom half are of British descent. In my country, therefore, there are at least 10,000,000 more people of British descent than live in the island of Britain itself...
Announcement was made yesterday that the Greek-American Inter-Collegiate Club will award three scholarships of $100 each for the academic year 1930-31 to students of Greek descent whose academic standards, personal need, general character, and integrity would qualify them as recipients. The competition is open to students in other universities as well as in Harvard, and the decision will be made by the Scholarship Committee of the club. On the application blanks, which may be obtained in University 5, the committee states that the scholarships are awarded for a period of one year, to cover tuition and that...
...Rosicrucian Brotherhood in San Jose, directed by H. Spencer Lewis, Imperator for North America, onetime Jew ish salesman, is joined to an international brotherhood conducted, like Freemasonry, on the lodge system. It extols good citizenship, patriotism, scientific and cultural self-improvement. Its primary significance is not religious. It claims descent from an occult and ancient line supposedly including the Egyptian sages and Sir Fran cis Bacon. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson.* Its ritual is elaborate, archaic, Egyptian in symbolism. Imperator Lewis recently threatened suit against Mrs. Heindel of Oceanside because she employed the term Rosicrucian in connection with her fellowship...
...economists in the country. Shaven-headed, thick-necked, he bears a distinct resemblance to the late great Gustav Stresemann whose friend and disciple he was. More important, he is one of the most intimate personal friends of President von Hindenburg. Born in Berlin in 1879, Bankpresident Luther proudly claims descent from the patron saint of Protestantism, grim-jawed Martin Luther...
When a parachute opens, the hemisphere offers such air resistance to gravity that descent is checked to about 16 ft. per second. This amounts to a force equal to that of jumping from a ten-foot fence, often sufficient to sprain an ankle. Chutes can be partially guided when the jumper wishes to avoid landing in a clump of trees or a pond, by pulling the shroud lines on the side toward which he wants to go. In a high wind, if the jumper does not unharness himself before he lands, as he must do when landing on water...