Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty miles up in the sky there is a cloud of electricity. Tonight, slowly and mysteriously, it will vanish. Professor Roland B. Holt wants to know...
Strout's solution was short. "Put men of integrity, wisdom, and with a sense of decency and fair play on the committees and most of the troubles will vanish overnight," he said. He urged that reforms come from within Congress itself...
...scientific laboratory, the modern football strategist does little more than got his hands cold of a Saturday afternoon. The real mental battle takes place several hours later in the warmth and quiet of a projection room. Here is where the coach sifts the men from the boys, and alibis vanish at 82 frames per second...
When Lester Furnival saw her husband vanish into thin air before her eyes, she thought at first that he must be a ghost. Then she realized that she was one. For a while, Lester and her sniveling girl friend Evelyn (they had been killed by the same crashing plane) were lonely in the soundless, deserted London they haunted. But then they got involved with a gaunt, ascetic emissary of the Devil named Simon Leclerc (he was disguised as a popular religious leader and preached about Love...
...speed, the airstream rushing over the canopy makes a moderate, roar. There is hardly any vibration. Experienced pilots say that the plane handles "like a kiddie-car." When it makes a "low pass," flying close to the ground at 550 m.p.h., objects far ahead seem to vanish before the eye has time to take a second look...