Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having an "easy time"- though working feverishly all day, overhauling their motors, reconditioning their planes-and purchasing new cold-weather outfits for their passage over the North Atlantic. Woolen underwear and fur-lined coats spell many gallons of gasoline. Everything unessential must be discarded, and even safety razors must disappear. Their fellow citizens will welcome gallant officers who are heavily bewhiskered...
Storm clouds cannot last forever. Sooner or later, having discharged their thunder, they must disappear. The past week saw the beginning of the dissipation of the black Matteotti storm which has convulsed Italy with conflicting emotions for a month (TIME, June...
...definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting at the poles of the sun, the spots increase rapidly in number and they move nearer the equator. They are most numerous in parts which correspond to the temperate zones on earth. At the end of the cycle they gradually disappear again; and eleven years after the first cycle began, they start to reappear and proceed through the same process. In 1923 the sun spot cycle was at its low ebb, but spots are again beginning to appear and we may look for the maximum in five or six years...
What could disprove the notion of the Shenandoah being a fair-weather craft more happily than this? A moonless night, a heavy thunderstorm, two sessions of heavy fog?none of these seemed to have bothered the ship very much. The difficulty in landing "light" will certainly disappear when the ballast recovery apparatus has been attached to every engine...
...part of the staff and the student waiters to fundamental details of cleanliness, are such as only to be borne through the necessity of time and purse. And when for all this one pays only a trifle less than one would on the Square, the reasons for eating there disappear...