Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonus, then, must lead to a fight over the sales tax in which the bonus itself will become a secondary issue, and will eventually die a natural death. Such a death would be better than a long fight over the bill, for then the issue would solve itself and disappear gradually, leaving but few people discontented. If the sales tax is not discussed, and the President's second proposal, that of delay, is accepted, the same end will be reached without wasting time on the sales...
While it is bad enough for property of the library to disappear at the hands of "careless" students, robbery (although an unpleasant word, the only one applicable in such a case) of the Farnsworth Room amounts almost to sacrilege. The possessions of this popular retreat are very valuable; the books are costly not only in binding but as integral parts of various sets; some of them are rare and difficult to replace. It is a distinct privilege for students to be allowed their handling at all, and that this permission should be abused is intolerable. Selfishness has indeed taken...
...government was drawn in most cases from funds which would otherwise have gone to promote the expansion of trade and industries. Such a consequence is unavoidable when the government's revenues are drawn from only a few sources. The investment funds of the country cannot be allowed to disappear into the Treasury year after year without ultimately harmful effects upon the stability of business and of the government itself...
...found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find that I was so thoroughly and quickly classed as an ordinary 'low brow...
...countries is a basis upon which may be built a better and a more sympathetic political understanding. The people of South America through more intimate relations are gradually coming to know the United States. Their erroneous conceptions of our people and our political aims will undoubtedly, by such means, disappear...