Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax of the revue is the performance of Lottic Mayer's Diving Beauties, who first wade into a tank, where they disappear, and then emerge to give a diving exhibition. The woman sitting in front of us reviewed it by gasping, "Oh, ain't it beautifull...
...light, which has puzzled physicians throughout Europe, was first noticed by nurses at the Pirano Hospital in Trieste where Signora Monaro is staying. From time to time an electric flash seemed to emerge from the Signora's breast, to glow for a few seconds, and then to disappear...
...time of the merger, the insurance company was the first institution in the U. S. to use the word "trust" in its corporate title. Its insurance business was dropped but the bank's annual reports show a reserve for old annuities which grows smaller each year and will disappear when the last annuitant dies. Bank of New York is dominated by no family or group except the self-perpetuating board of 26 trustees. Its sole branch is a colonial mansion uptown in the swank residential section. There the tellers may receive their socialite customers behind desks instead of wickets...
...work of Harvard wretches attempting reprisal for the theft of the Lampoon's Ibis has, in the argot of crime, a number of angles. First of all, the Harvards went and lifted a section of the historic Yale fence from Pach's photographic studio. Then the Ibis disappeared. Now Yale's favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes is seen being whisked down Mount Auburn Street in a high-powered car which the police are unable...
...eventually disastrous for them, for instead of harnessing and guiding this force for their benefit as they might do if they possessed sufficient foresight, they are merely exhausting themselves in battling the inevitable. When a class loses the power of adapting itself to a changing environment it will disappear just as surely as did the dinosaurs of another world. NEMO...