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Word: disappearers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's race will singular in that the Crimson runners have participated only in triangular contests so far this fall. In the opening meet, they lost to a potent M.I.T. squad, while shading Holy Cross, and last week, they watched the entire Rhode Island State team disappear over the sylvan Franklin Part horizon. Boston University had a slight bulge over the Varsity in the latter meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Country Team Set to Ambush Dartmouth at Franklin Park Today | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes in the United States knows at least one member of his race who is 'passing' - the magic word which means that some Negroes can get by as whites. . . . Often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Passing | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...hundred mark) could quite easily be absorbed in House dining halls. Splitting the entire number into seven segments of less than fifty men, and giving each cluster the option of taking meals in one particular House would hardly be a burden to dining halls where the very lines themselves disappear for minutes at a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining 'Em Up | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

Working from this theory, they drew up specifications for an all purpose aid. "When instruments are drawn up according to these specifications," according to the report, "the problem of individual fitting will almost disappear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Researchers Say New Hearing Aid Now is Possible | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

Secondly, Europe must be made financially stable. Then inflation would end, prices would come down, black markets would disappear and people would stop hoarding food. When confidence in currency was restored, European capital would stay at home instead of flying nervously abroad. To establish confidence, European governments want $3 billion in dollars and gold from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Paris Plan | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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