Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th or 14th day, the high fever suddenly drops to normal, all symptoms rapidly disappear...
From the third to the fifth day of the fever dirty pink spots appear?first on the abdomen and upper chest, then on the back, then rapidly all over the body. Soon the spots become rusty pink. Some of them darken to purple, blue, brown, then disappear...
...spots of typhus fever and of typhoid fever often look alike and account for an ancient confusion of the two distinct diseases. There is a simple way to distinguish between the two. When pressed down by a piece of glass, typhoid spots disappear from sight completely. Typhus spots when similarly squeezed become pale but do not disappear...
...away. At this point the story becomes frankly and happily implausible. Police find one corpse in the undertaker's parlor. They pack it off to a gruff old personage named Robert Daniels (Tully Marshall) under the impression that it is his nephew. Daniels' daughter and her husband disappear. A murder appears to have been committed and a dim-witted lady named Sybil (Zasu Pitts) discovers an absent-minded individual dressed in a raincoat who seems to know something about it. Finally, Daniels' daughter and her husband discover the timid embalmer's assistant. He helps to explain...
...English, the Foundation found, "students drop the study as freshmen, and literary knowledge tends to disappear. ... As for vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy. Possibly the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish may help explain his case...