Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schools would vanish. They are prisons for children masquerading under the name of places for education. I was locked up in one for many hours, but I never learned anything there. That is how I preserved my brain. If I had learned anything in school I would have become an imbecile like most educated people...
...Persons first described the theory of recurring business cycles, on which the Harvard Economic Service is based. Perpetual change, he showed, is an inherent feature of modern industrial enterprise. Prices rise and fall; markets expand and contract; production increases and decreases; orders accumulate beyond capacity and then seem to vanish altogether...
...itself. The academic painters are in it only an insolent and half-baked challenge in their own medium. The modernists think they are destined to supplant the older school entirely. Neither is right, and when a true understanding of their respective purposes is spread abroad, the antagonism will vanish...
...attaches herself and affections to one Roy North. Philip finds a loving little consolation all his own, and is just arranging another marriage, when back comes Marjorie, dissatisfied with her recent readjustment. She asks her husband's new ideal for him, and finally both she and the ideal vanish and the husband is left in a bad way. The picture is taken a long way from Charles G. Norris' novel of the same name. Individual performances by Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Irene Rich, Frank Keenan are its better features...
...duty of making the change easier should fall at least as much on the preparatory school as on the college. With a co-operation between the two--better preparation from the schools, and more care from the colleges to introduce the student gradually--the difficulty will largely vanish...