Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Frances Robinson, $6,000-a-year adviser to Johnson and a deputy administrator, probably will pass from the N R A picture with him. Many persons believe the initials "N R A" themselves will disappear in the reorganization process now formally under...
...grain stealing, confidently expected to be the hero of their trial. But so backward was the local Soviet court that both parents were acquitted. Last week their second son,11-year-old Vanya, peached on them not for grain stealing but for murder. "My brother Mischa didn't just disappear after my parents were acquitted. They killed him!" testified the dauntless Pioneer. Resolved to make an example of the parents, Moscow authorities swooped down on the village of Fadeevka, prepared to put through a typical Soviet propaganda trial...
...done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
...last three hundred years Harvard has manufactured candidates for the "society of scholars", and today it is well equipped to oil some ten thousand of these animals, sheltered within its portals. Another Freshman Class of a thousand men will make small impression on the ceaseless tide. It will disappear under the dormitories in the Yard to show its head only at required intervals when it must produce study-cards or fill out House applications to adorn crowded files. Twice a year its members will receive grades from the august Faculty which wields in this light way its powers of honors...
Back a child with bronchial asthma up against a tree and peg a lock of his hair into a hole bored in the tree trunk. Snip the lock from his head. When bark grows over the hair, the asthma will disappear...