Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign ships are entering American ports with crews from four to six times the normal size-and most of the men disappear before the ships leave. Smuggling of aliens over the Mexican and Canadian borders and on the coast line of Florida has become very common since the 3% restriction law went into effect. One entire group of 43 Chinamen was caught near St. Andrews...
...same time so obscured by propaganda and counter-propaganda that only the future can decide the outcome of the issue. Security holders, who have the most to lose by Government operation, are anxiously watching the earning rate. If it continues to improve the Government bogy will disappear; if dividends begin to be passed and the railroad workers continue their stalemate warfare with the executives, the stock holders must resign themselves to the inevitable...
...conclave in some secluded meadow, savors too much of the mysterious to pass without curiosity. Banquos's attitude has been prevalent: "Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show?" The glamour of romance, more alluring because not fully known, hangs over the whole organization. But when neighbors disappear, when courts of justice are invaded; or, on the other hand, when the village poor family is supplied with food and money by a disguised visitor, then the Klan must be thought of as something more than a secret brotherhood with mystic rites and nothing more serious...
...official leaders chosen each year would commit itself definitely and there would be an end to the excuses of "not knowing the candidates." If on the other and the decision was to have no Sophomore or Junior officers, the cloud of criticism about "lack of spirit" and "indifference" would disappear. In either case, this miserable, dismal farce of the annual middle class elections would be stopped...
Many of the fancied wrongs of our times will disappear when educated men reflect and dwell upon the blessings which are theirs, when they insist upon temperate speech, when they are concerned more with performance than promise, when they realize that saying a thing does not make it so, when they are willing to grant to others the same integrity of motive which they ascribe to themselves, and when rejoicing in all that is true and good it is their burning purpose...