Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge of an army truck corps, Martin du Gard conceived the idea of The Thibaults and reorganized his life to write it according to plan. The plan worked equally well on his country estate in Normandy or at his apartment in Nice. On Monday mornings he would disappear into his workroom; seldom reappear until Friday night...
Getting in to a new Broadway hit often takes patience, pleading-or a hefty premium that is many times the price of admission. Tickets disappear first at the box office, then at the large, reputable ticket brokers (who, unlike many of their smaller, shadier colleagues, charge no more than the top legal fee of 75? a ticket). But for those who want seats badly enough, especially in the first ten rows, there is a booming black market...
...professional journalist must disappear...
...these problems, he said, "if we are to escape the fate which almost engulfed physics." Bridgman referred to how indefinite terminology seriously bogged down science in the last century. If modern man becomes precise in his definitions of vague words like "democracy," he argued, then difficulties over values may disappear...
...week or so, workmens' coats and tools will disappear from the shelves of the new Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont, making room for volumes of verse and recordings of poetry readings. Harvard men will enjoy increased facilities for listening and a larger room than the old one in Widener. But as things stand now, Radcliffe girls will be unable to use it as they could use the old Wood-berry room. The loss of this privilege will affect not only poetry lovers, but girls in English O, who need to listen to these records as part of their course work...