Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lose, her true love, Colonel Vershmin; Olga the eldest, is doomed to spend the dreary minutes of her existence as a high-school superintendent; and Irina, the youngest, hating her provincial life, no longer able to "remember the Italian for window or ceiling," sees her last chance for escape disappear when her fiance is killed in a duel. An unhappy ending follows naturally and is attained with all the Russian genius for melancholy. Chekhow perceives and portrays the dreamlike weakness of his characters, their inability to face and master the problems engendered by circumstance; but, at the same time...
Most important of all, Veronika believed that 1943 would bring victory and peace. The heat would be turned on, the pechka would disappear, the old man would come home, Grusha would go back to school. What else would happen Veronika did not know, nor did she much care. That was enough to think about...
...dime a dozen; because the types are twice as apparent as they ever were before. So it looks like the critics will have to wait till this epidemic of symbolitis blows over before they can expect first rate war drama. As a matter of fact, it probably won't disappear altogether until after the armistice...
Bats need no home during the lush summer nights when the air is full of edible insects. By day they hang in convenient roosts-trees, chimneys or barns. But when the chill months come and insects disappear, torpor comes over them and with it a longing for their own cave, the same spot where they have spent previous winters. Bats sometimes fly 100 miles to find their old cave and sleep in it until spring...
...able to say something about the future of the college reserves, but Perkins stressed the fact that it is doubtful that there will be say definite news. Students are urged to attend this meeting since it is entirely possible that freedom of action in enlistment may almost disappear after December...