Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unsold True Story magazines, padding circulation an average of 75,540 copies a month. For the first four months True Story's real circulation was well over the 2,000,000 guaranteed advertisers. But thereafter it fell below the guarantee and distributors really started making unsold copies disappear: in May they "ate" 57,218 copies; in December, 210,271. As late as November, True Story still solemnly reaffirmed its 2,000,000 guarantee...
...explanation has it that Smith girls are not allowed to be photographed on the campus, with the result that, whom news photographers gathered on the finish line, the girls were forced to disappear...
...Peddie and Gerry Davis at one and two accounted for the other two Crimson tallies. Peddie saw his one up lead disappear when he three putted the eighteenth green but came back to nip Bill Paine of Brown on the first extra hole. Harvard took the best ball in the first foursome by a 2-1 count, but Davis lost...
...extraordinary chapter in U.S. political history that began with his capture of the Republican nomination had come to an end. But even in the unlikely event that Willkie should virtually disappear as a public figure, it was clear that he had left one outstanding mark on U.S. affairs. He had prevented the 1940 campaign from being turned into a partisan fight on foreign policy, had prevented the kind of bitter post-election fight that might have kept the U.S. from following any coherent foreign policy. Whether Franklin Roosevelt's choice of policy was wise or unwise, Loser Willkie...
...greatest achievement in the history of I Am was the recent Hawaiian incident. Two summers ago members of the sect on the islands became convinced that Hawaii was soon to sink into the sea. But I Am, by a magnificent exertion of will, resolved that Hawaii should not disappear under the waves. And today Hawaii stands strong and unsubmerged, a bulwark of national defense and a heroic monument to the Great...