Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar reverted to her in 1935 as it is certain to do, Germany might forego her other demands and disappear as a cause of European nervousness for some years...
First commentator on Pilot Sheridan's harrowing experience was Publisher Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram. As an authority on meteors Publisher Perry declared: "The fact that Sheridan saw the meteor disappear is conclusive proof that he was not very close to it, because most meteors cease to glow at a height of about five miles...
Despite the present urgency, moreover, this is not a problem which will disappear with the depression. It is a problem which has existed throughout the Lowell regime and which was brought to acuteness by the institution of the House Plan. It is a problem which vitally concerns the future of Harvard College. President Lowell, while by no means unsympathetic to the financial needs of undergraduates, never attached to this matter its real importance. The cost of attending Harvard was allowed to rise and rise until there exists a very real danger that Harvard will become a rich man's college...
Great crowds gathered in streets of San Juan, of Rio Piedras, of many a village and hamlet throughout Puerto Rico last week. They had but one purpose: to stop all motor traffic. They scattered tacks, nails, scraps of iron, pieces of glass over the pavements. Automobiles that did not disappear prudently into driveways were attacked by gangs who drove nails into their tires, smashed their windshields with bricks. Thus, from end to end of their island, Puerto Ricans struck against the high price of gasoline...
...front axle. The rear seat is moved forward some 20 inches from its old place on top of the rear axle to slope off the body. The front seat has been widened eight inches to hold three passengers comfortably. When and if streamlining is completed the running board will disappear and the engine will move to the rear. But that time is not yet. Such is Chrysler's attempt to give the automobile a shape of its own, to get further ahead in the automobile race of 1934. But he has by no means got that race to himself...