Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which leaves you with that mellow, warm feeling inside. Such is the case when young Ulysses, frightened to terror by a figure in a store window, suddenly realizes the meaning of the word "afraid," and his face lights up in wonder with the new-gained knowledge, as the tears vanish. But when Brown, Estabrook, and Saroyan use their same technique on the philosophies of death and immortality, the effect is not the same. Saroyan's message, as simple as the child Ulysses, can't be spread on with a thick butter knife; the film emerges a combination of a House...
...love You, I like You, I'm crazy for you. . . . But I'm Napoleon Bonaparte." That's the tone of this year's Valentines as lacey pictures of love struck hearts and blushing young maidens vanish before the incoming rush of humorous gag cards...
...Britain's weekly Aeroplane, the Red Air Force's Major General Kondratov said that in six months of 1942 the Russians destroyed 600 Junkers 528 in the air and on the ground. Wrote General Kondratov: "Along the Soviet front . . . we saw German self-confidence wane and then vanish when transport airplanes ceased to arrive...
...rafters where the night-flying mosquitoes rest. The sprayers are all lads of good caste, so no highborn Hindu will be outraged by their attentions to his residence, outhouse and cowshed, each of which must be re-sprayed every week or so. First night after spraying all mosquitoes vanish...
...comes from a Southern minority within the college, many Northern students have taken the stand that introduction of the new plan would not be worth the disturbance it would cause. This, in itself, is not an argument but a weak, defensive stall. The problem of color discrimination will not vanish in time like a seven-year locust; instead its pressure will grow more and more as Negroes contribute to the preservation of the four freedoms. Princeton, far from being a pioneer, would be one of the last Northern universities to fall in line; and the only means of proving...