Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faust sings of his despair. When he sees the coming of daylight, he closes the shutters. The pale sunbeams (supplied by a spot high up on Suhren's fly gallery) disappear. He threatens to kill himself, but-as Chorus Master Taussig on his stepladder gives the beat-women's voices offstage urge Faust to live...
Once in effect this system would soon be accepted as readily as the present arbitrary assignment of freshmen Yard dormitories. The stigma of not "getting the first choice" would disappear, along with cliques of dissatisfied people and uneven distribution...
Over-application to certain Houses and the resulting inequitable distribution will not disappear, however, until the House stereotypes that cause them are destroyed. At the present rate, rather than dying out, the stereotypes cannot help perpetuating themselves. A student who enters a House hoping to find a party atmosphere, for example, will naturally help liven the festive air already there. Freshmen who dislike a House's label because they do not fit it will apply else-here. Housemasters, even those seeking varied composition, are largely limited to students who apply either as first, second, or third choice. So a House...
...states' judicial systems is the main reason for delay in the courts. In Queens County, N.Y., for example, it now takes 49 months for a jury case to come to trial in the state courts. Justice so long delayed can mean justice denied, as litigants die and witnesses disappear...
...kept alive and profitable. Papa Kroch, who got started in a store the size of a closet and once said that "a bookseller without a soul is but a ribbon clerk," is convinced that son Carl has the right idea: "It is a fairy tale that books will disappear. Books will remain and books will be read...