Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulders and trunk, extending to the extremities, the backs of the hands and feet, and sometimes to the palms and soles. It becomes more abundant during the subsequent days, but it is seen very rarely on the face and forehead. It is at first composed of pink spots which disappear on pressure, but soon these become purplish, more deeply brownish red, and finally fade into a brown color. ... A symptom of considerable importance, early and rarely missed, is the severe headache which is apt to be more unbearable in this disease than in other acute fevers. . . . When the rash, together...
...sidelines "Tony" Fokker looked up from the technical journal he had been reading in time to see Stack's plane disappear over the horizon. Finish of the race: Melbourne, Australia, 11,323 miles away. Preparations...
Winds gradually abate in fury. A spot of pure, translucent blue can be seen now through the inky heaven. Clouds disappear like magic. Great quantities of sand settle on the cold plain like rain on a marshy flat. The Simoon is gone! Oaths from native drivers bring struggling beasts to their feet. Loads are replaced, straps tightened. Hearts beat high again with hope. Endless journey across the white sands of the Gobi is resumed . . . and the Vagabond travels to Chinese 11 to hear Mr. Gardner in his charming and inimitable manner recount dramatically life in the Far East...
...Harvard's James Bryant Conant: There is a great danger that at times of crisis like the present we shall disappear under a welter of words used in a perfectly meaningless manner: psychology, integration, relativity, complexes, vitamins, service-you have all heard them. Certainly they appeal to the ignorant, but the really educated should be proof against them...
Anyone watching the sky on a clear night is likely to see two or three meteors. As flaming bits of matter they usually disintegrate and disappear scores of miles up. Far less frequent are meteors big enough to make a daytime display and send fragments visibly hurtling to earth as meteorites. Yet within 24 hours last week two such phenomena caused excitement on opposite sides...