Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect justice," said Emile Zola in 1897, at the height of his fame. "I know that I must disappear." So far as his literary popularity was concerned, the forecast was sound. After his death in 1902, his readers began dropping away. Between 1932 and 1952 not a single book about Zola was published in English. In the U.S., thanks to Actor Paul Muni's performance in a movie version of his life, Zola is stereotyped as an angry old Frenchman in a plug...
...cabinets. But Chicago's 57-year-old Arthur Keating solved the mystery long ago. As head of Ekco Products Co. and king of the U.S. kitchenware business, it is his job to make women want ever more household gimmicks. Keating estimates that nearly a third of existing gadgets disappear every year: they are lost in the garbage, carted away by children, or battered shapeless by amateur earthmovers in the backyard. Keating makes it his business to put the rest out of date...
...years Collector Haffenreffer has bought scores of the ancient figures for his private museum. He refuses to put a price on his collection, but the 22 figures he has lent M.I.T. are valued at $25,000, and the price will go up as more & more of the old chieftains disappear from the U.S. scene...
...free country, and people will not be pushed around by educators") but to improve the high schools. "The false antithesis between education for the gifted and education for all American youth must be resolved . . . Then one demand for a further increase in private independent education will largely disappear...
...first civilian products to disappear after Korea was the white-wall tire, that symbol of what economists*call "conspicuous consumption." Last week NPA told rubbermen they could make whitewalls again, a sign that conspicuous civilian production was almost back...