Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first function of a yearbook is to come out, the second is to come out good. For two years running the Yearbook people have given tradition a healthy kick by producing their publication on time; previous annuals tended to get lost at the bindery or disappear in the mails. Now, with its publication problem beaten, the Yearbook can profitably start worrying a little more about what it publishes...
Most of the girls Wellesley as they find it, but some 25 percent disappear between freshman and senior classes to join coed schools. But for those who remain, no matter how diversified the academic interests, tradition and honor leave their mark. Wellesley will continue, for many generations to come, to be a minor tempest behind the Teapot of American society
...this is not surprising. During the last fortnight his confusion has been built into delirium. Every night at dinner two giant speakers blare weird music at him. It is the music that is distracting his mind. It is the music that is making the milk sours and the spoons disappear. It is a violation of most fundamental human rights to dignity, and peace, and privacy...
...rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...
...considerable influence upon the traditional life of the college. The academic side dominates the student's relationship to Vassar, and the highly organized extra-curricular activities consume much of the rest of her time during the week. But on weekends, the blue jeans, sneakers, dirty shirts, and text-books disappear, and so do most of the students...