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Word: disappeared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarter of the 14 billion cells of the brain cortex. "The brain of modern man," said he, "is only some intermediate stage in the ultimate development of the master organ of life." When man's brain finally bursts into full bloom, he prophesied, depressions and wars will disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tilney Memorial | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

After the brick-busting, the old West passed into the hands of a firm which has made more buildings disappear than all the raiding bombers of modern warfare: the sprawling Cleveland Wrecking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALVAGE: Five Rose Wreckers | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...voice describes Rebecca's death, the actors disappear from the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...crook; the Harvard Press publishes the Annual Inglish Lectures, while Law School addresses appear in the Harvard Law Review. But even through these channels not enough lectures become available for popular consumption. All too many talks, discussions, forums, symposiums, and conferences flash briefly in the scholastic skies, and then disappear into the "unknown bourne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIRGIN TERRITORY | 3/16/1940 | See Source »

...monstrous, formless cloud of atomic dust) is a powerful attraction between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. Dr. Bethe finds that the transmitter of this force is none other than the mesotron, which seems not to be a permanent part of the nucleus but to appear and disappear as needed. In other words, when a nuclear proton wants to transfer a package of energy to another proton or to a neutron, it calls into existence a mesotron, which does the job and then vanishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powerful Brain | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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