Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig devotes himself to an exhaustive analysis of his characters, and finally they, under this pressure, disappear into a rarified atmosphere, incompatible with the gusto of his background. The hero has been on dowed with a sensitive and poetic nature that it patently ridiculous in view of his mentality...
...such improvement in the quality of journalism must depend on a change in the public's mode of thought. As long as sensationalism sells papers, it will not disappear. Even if the dailies admit that news is what the papers play up, some will continue to seek readers by playing up the most extravagant stories available. The "popular commercial press" is bound to remain commercial...
...expended. It offers an opportunity of a sort for a man to check up on himself, to give direction to his efforts. Of course, too often examinations bring a rigid limiting influence that makes for fact-cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily tending to disappear, giving rise to questions demanding more comprehensive, integrated knowledge. A third feature of examinations is the forced review of the course as a whole, which they necessitate. Again and again men will find that this retrospect gives unity and meaning to the subject that had been impossible to grasp during...
...voice from the radio had told them that the universe was nothing but a bursting soap bubble. "It is easy to blow a soap bubble," said the voice, "but far less easy to keep it in existence more than a minute or two-after that it is apt to disappear. If hope I shall not startle you too much if I say . . . that the universe is like that . . . expanding-I might almost say exploding-at a terrific rate. The results of measuring the speeds of nebulae were sensational. The last to be investigated was found to be receding from...
...front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane's retractable wheels, aimed his forced landing at a plowed field, skilfully "skidded her in." Just before landing, he saw Engineer Forberger lose his hold and disappear. Had the plane been 100 ft. higher, the engineer's parachute might have saved his life...