Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underneath all the talk about the Yale plan's magic ability to make differences between Houses disappear within a few years is the large pile of money the University could save by not fixing up the Quad Houses. After all it is a lot easier to make students live at the Quad than to dress it up and then try to peddle...
...mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J. Dunninger's first intimations of telepathic power came, he said, when he realized he could read grade-school classmates' minds and find solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like his friend Houdini, Dunninger...
...know, when patriotic Americans like yourself take the big step and stop looking for work, they mysteriously disappear from the Labor Department's statistics on unemployed persons. In the present economic situation, we have found this is the most effective way to hold down the rising rate of unemployment...
...Raphael and the Piero della Francesca masterpieces is a loss beyond measurement," said Italy's leading art historian and critic Giulio Carlo Argan. "It's as though all the existing copies of Dante's Divine Comedy and the verses of Petrarch were suddenly to disappear from the face of the earth...
...already. So much to do. Imagine! Striped buildings. Red streets. Sunrise painted on the Sears Tower, sunset on Hancock. A continuous wave of sea paintings along front of all buildings on Michigan Avenue. Rainbows on underside of el tracks. Then we invite all people of city to disappear the next weekend and I do the sidewalks...