Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herriot its President. He received 300 votes out of a Chamber of 324. Nobody thought he could put his Cartel finance program through by any such majority; but M. Briand's prestige slumped. It was rumored that a Herriot-Caillaux Cabinet would replace the Briand-Doumer partnership, Doumer to vanish, Briand to return as Foreign Minister...
...very true that these possibilities usually vanish. A year ago as now, the President addressed serious recommendations to Congress. Upon only one of these, taxation, did Congress act, and upon that confusedly. Neither farm marketing; nor railroad consolidation, nor the Muscle Shoals, nor reclamation, nor the World Court was honored with effective attention. Over farm marketing and the Music Shoals, Congress deigned to bicker for a while. But when it might have entertained the other propositions. It was busied with doling out souvenir cannon and war monuments to the towns back home...
...these arguments advanced in behalf of the accused could stand it would mean that a private could berate his captain, a major could lampoon his colonel, with the result that discipline would vanish and the Army become...
...anybody heard of Pilot Ames. He never reached Bellefonte. As far as appearances went, he might have tilted off into interstellar space. A towerman on the Pennsylvania said that he had seen a plane come out of a fog bank with all its lights lit, waver for a moment, vanish again. Farmers declared that they had heard the noise of a motor above them early on the morning that Ames disappeared. Searching parties found nothing. Last week a boy, one Harry Dobson, 15, found Ames on top of a peak called Nittany Ridge, four miles east of Bellfonte. The plane...
...animals, a university hibernates during the summer; and, properly enough, after it awakens in the early autumn, it requires some time to get its blood circulating again. Believing that this before-breakfast sleep-each college year should, by this time, iness characteristic of the beginning of have begun to vanish, the CRIMSON reiterates its invitation to the University at large to use its editorial columns for the public expression of opinion on University affairs. All letters intended for publication must be signed by the writer, and only by special arrangement will they be published anonymously...