Word: vanishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the whole trinity of sciences runs the same distemper of bad morale. Cure this and most of the bad symptoms will vanish. Louder and louder grows the murmur that men are afraid to teach, driven away from the student by the intense pressure to produce tangible results from the laboratory. This pressure arises from the official belief that instructors will be intellectually dead at forty if they cannot drink deep of the fountain of perpetual youth that flows in the laboratory and the stacks. With some instructors this is true. But as a substitute for an intelligent personal estimate...
...again convinced that the world is essentially round, and its Creator in His appointed place. Humming a measure or two from Mendelssohn, one crosses Mt. Auburn Street, headed Yard-wards. But as one's gaze falls on the new University Parking Place, the smile of joy is likely to vanish from one's face...
...have. ... It is conceivable that a type of society might arise in which there would be great material prosperity and a highly developed technology but no spiritual and intellectual freedom. Under such stifling conditions all vital interest in art and literature would fade and enthusiasm for pure thought would vanish; what would remain would be a barbarism which all the radios and automobiles and skyscrapers in the world would not conceal. In such a desert, the applied scientists, essential for a smooth operation of the complex mechanism, might be the only men with a true education. The monks...
...June 16, 1930), solely on the strength of promises made by Mistress Lupescu. Read his suppressed speech in part: "She declared 'My role has been that of Carol's solace in exile. I nursed him when he was ill and inspired him with courage. Now I will vanish forever from his life.' Such was the promise of this woman to myself as Premier and to the National Peasant Party. We have seen how she has forgotten her promise. The situation is intolerable...
...Thorp, granddaughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was entertaining visitors when she heard footsteps above. Fluttering upstairs, Miss Thorp peeked into a bedroom just in time to see a closet door close softly. She tugged it open. Out of the closet scuttled a scared prowler to jump through the window, vanish...