Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company with his colleagues, Dr. Tufts refined from placenta blood some serum which he called PBS, and injected 20 cc. into the arm of a patient who had suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis for more than ten years. After three injections she reported, "My pain and swelling began to disappear and I could notice the lump on my wrist start to go down . . . It's wonderful...
...disappearance of the receding galaxies is a similar phenomenon and just as remarkable, in their view. Where the galaxies go, if "anywhere," they do not know. When they reach the speed of light with the stretching of space, they "just disappear." The mass of those that go "over the edge" of perception equals exactly the mass of the newly created hydrogen. In the same way, the water spilling out of a full tank equals the new water entering...
...Dean tends to favor some sort of deferment plan as a workable solution at this time, and feels that of the objections to the Trytten plan may disappear now that it has been amended. The new clauses that make men liable for college years, take away some of the advantages to the college student that may have existed before. Of course, a future Congress might change back a rule, and some men could avoid service. "I would not favor this plan at all," Bender said, "unless I thought all would serve at some time or other...
...these animals turn up in the dining halls, grow fat, and disappear suddenly? One can't be sure...
Just ahead of the winter freeze-up, the broad-bottomed barges cast off from Nome's weather-beaten docks and tagged southward behind their tugs toward the Bering Sea. Townsmen ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners...