Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most popular legends about Andrew Carnegie was that he never wholly gave anything,--always half a church organ or half a college library. A large part of this tradition is likely to disappear if the plan of the Carnegle Foundation announced yesterday is put into effect. Here instead of providing half a college, the Foundation is planning to give money to an arrangement putting six small colleges together and making one University in the Maritime Provinces of Canada...
...joining the various roads to trunk lines which reach the New England gateways, however, the aim of the Transportation Act can be accomplished; the strong lines will be used as the financial backbones and the existing problem of the apportionment of through rates will disappear. All the earnings from one system will go into a main treasury from which the subordinate operating units will receive the necessary support. In this way the railroads of New England will be restored to a sound financial basis and the spectre of public ownership avoided...
...removed, a good deal of the present possibility of corruption could be eliminated. If private letters of introduction from instructors were to be substituted for the wage-earning qualities of a Ph.D., the inordinate desire for extra letters of the alphabet to place after one's name would largely disappear. Finally, if degrees were treated as secondary in importance, if colleges gave up the ambition to spatter their catalogues of faculties with doctor's titles, the present commercializing of the degree would stop. Unless some method of prevention is adopted, and adopted soon, by the American universities of high standing...
Traveling as a passenger, one regretfully watches sufficient wherewithal to take a summer's continental tour disappear in the purchase of transportation. Often a strongly deterrent factor in acquiring the proper veneer! and we summer monotonously at Annisquam or Cape...
...what is largely responsible for most of the present difficulty, and when it gives way to the feeling that it is worse than a disgrace to behave in a manner which could possibly be construed as unsportsmanlike or ungentlemanly, the troubles which so cloud the horizon now will disappear of themselves and the era of sport for sport's sake and not for trophy will...