Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive they tend to disappear. I am not making any argument with the man who believes that 55 per cent ought to be taken away from the $1,000,000 income, or 68 per cent from a $5,000,000 income; but when it is considered that in the effort to get these amounts we are rapidly approaching the point of getting nothing at all, it is necessary to look for a more practical method. That can be done by a reduction of the high surtaxes...
...hazard the guess, however, that even extra-curriculum activities will disappear within a comparatively short time. Princeton, at least, is becoming more and more of a student's college where not only does curriculum come first, but extra times goes to following out a favorite bit of erudite research-- to reading or to writing. Extra-curriculum activities and over-organization go hand in hand. We would not be surprised to see them fade away before many years have gone by. --The Princetonian...
...apply to Tangier unless concurred in by the local government (see following paragraph). Capitulations (extra territorial rights) are abrogated; natives enjoying foreign protection will be under the jurisdiction of European mixed courts. Moroccan francs and Spanish pesatas continue to be legal tender. The Debt Control Commission is to disappear, the Moroccan Government having guaranteed the interest payable on the 1904 and 1910 loans, the Tangier Harbor bonds and the Tangier-Fez Railway bonds, total of more than 4,000,000 francs a year...
...UP?Feudal hatreds of the Carolina mountains disappear before a primitive patriotism...
...third feature of the show is a flight of steps. The figure is literal and refers in no way to the dancers. Down in the clanking depths of some mechanical mind these steps were born. They pyramid, they stretch, they disappear, revolve and blunder grandly forth again in pyramids. The chorus drilled across them ceaselessly, results achieved were strikingly effective...