Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the past year, and today's Sever Quadrangle exercises, may seem to indicate an approach to reconversion, one peacetime tradition will vanish after this 1945 Commencement: the canvas tent which shades Sever Quadrangle, a canvas which has shaded other Commencements for the past 30 to 40 years and which has been in Harvard's possession for so long that even the Maintenance Department Doesn't know where it originally came from, will be scrapped as a potential danger after this afternoon's ceremonies are over
Tired British Foreign Office officials, who sometimes wish the London Poles would "vanish," did not share the concern. Others reported authoritatively that the underground leaders were in Moscow, talking; this in itself would be an achievement...
Oilman Frank Phillips watched with dismay while federal taxes and Oklahoma state levies ate deeper & deeper into his $50,000-a-year salary as board chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Finally the salary (a minor item of the Phillips income, anyhow) seemed to vanish altogether...
...executive, idea man, boon companion, and alter ego. There is no law covering it, the occupant need not be confirmed by Congress, he is responsible to no one except the President, and he can make the job what he will. When Hopkins quits (unlikely) or dies, the job will vanish...
...love of the Fatherland that had prompted Nazis Hobel and Classen to vanish into the warm evening last July MPs testified that when they caught them next morning they were bedded down with the two canning-factory girls in a heap of woodland straw. Owosso Sheriff Ray Gallety later reported that there was nothing much unusual about that-about 15 town girls were "always sneaking out to the camp and nearby fields to meet the Germans...