Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time a wealth of confidence was being built up in Dick Harlow's ability as a football coach. This first appeared among the players themselves and by the end of the season the hand-dog, furtive look on the faces of Harvard sports followers was beginning to disappear in spite of the fact that Harvard won no major games that year...
...puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected to see the river disappear underground. They feared a sudden, widespread collapse which might engulf adjoining farms, cause a destructive local earthquake...
...country as a result of the Soviet Union's drive to get rid of foreigners, form a vivid picture of industrial chaos from top to bottom. Foreigners having business with Soviet organizations report them in confusion. They start dealing with one set of executives only to have them disappear and be succeeded by another, who know nothing of what has gone before and who themselves soon disappear, to be succeeded by another set of novices...
...Cosmopolitan Productions moved to their studio from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935, Warner Brothers have announced no Davies pictures on their schedule for next year. Cosmopolitan Productions has announced no new affiliation. Another Dawn (Warner). First love of dreamy Julia Ashton (Kay Francis) is an aviator who disappears at sea. That loss she mourns until she meets and marries Colonel John Wister (Ian Hunter), who takes her back to his small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily anticipate, she burns at first sight. Only satisfactory...
...winter afternoon three years ago the two lawyers discovered that unused balances of money deposited in Federal Courts disappear into the U. S. Treasury after five years if unclaimed and if the right to the money is not disputed. Realizing that within State boundaries the State is sovereign and that the Federal Government has no escheat powers save in its territories, they probed further, learned that in the custody of the Treasury awaiting disposition was $160,000 in such funds from the District Courts at Philadelphia, Scranton and Pittsburgh...