Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the deciduous (non-evergreen) leaf begins to die and disintegrate, the molecules of its unstable green pigment, chlorophyll, disappear. Its departure reveals the yellow carotene and xanthophyll which have been present but masked by the green all summer...
...Variety inform me as to what has caused the music of Richard Wagner to almost entirely disappear from the air lanes? If our people have no "reaction" against it, who then is denying radio audiences the greatest dramatic music ever written...
...every period of sweeping change, life outruns its popular interpreters. Happenings come too fast; old familiar actors on the stage of history are whisked away and disappear; newcomers crowd in, get half through their opening lines and vanish with a dull thud and a gurgle...
...chairs, for they are specialists in the universe of knowledge. Many Catholics are inclined to apologize for them; but I think that is unwise. They are embarrassing but not significant, and quite harmless as long as their tantrums do not lead them to break the furniture. They will disappear in time like those other exhibitionists - the marathon dancers and flagpole sitters - who amused America for a while and vanished...
...during his half-century in the Near East. He was also pioneering the Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad, and serving as the Kaiser's confidential intelligence agent. One of the world's greatest authorities on Bedouins, Baron von Oppenheim still loves to don their dress and disappear among them for long periods...