Word: vanishingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lose, 10-9, threw away another game to the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators, 9-8, when two Yankee infielders let an easy pop fly fall between them for a hit. This week, after losing two straight to the challenging Boston Red Sox, the Yankees saw their lead vanish as Boston drew up into a dead tie for first. In spite of ill luck and an astonishing succession of injuries (70 since the season began), the nervy Yankees had hung on until the final week of the season. Then, after a third straight loss to Boston, they sank wearily to second...
...readers, the Post was running "Today's Pitching Form" -"official" daily gambling odds on the big-league games. In an editorial, Jimmy Wechsler lamely explained that he was just giving his readers a fielder's choice. Wrote he: "We do not believe the gambling urge would vanish if we left this arithmetical intelligence out of this newspaper . . ." The Post gets its odds from a "reliable" Jersey handbook, presumably a member of one of the "powerful gambling syndicates...
...hear his quiet-toned discourses, and at Balliol's long, oak-topped high-table with its silver candlesticks, notables came from all over the world to dine and talk with him. But in his spare time, when his Oxford duties were done, the master was apt to vanish...
Album troubles won't vanish completely even if the Class Committee and the Council do everything they're supposed. The problem is one of content more than anything else-a one-class book, put together by a one-year staff, can't be a topnotch publication. Freshmen interested in that type of work are drained off by the Red Book, and the late organization of the senior book always makes ontime publication nearly impossible. The '46 album, admittedly upset by the war, isn't out yet; the '47-'48 book, with energetic and skillful management, will be lucky...
They run to considerable length, neatly panned out in slanting German script; most of them simply describe everyday life--"very ordinary"--and ask questions about America and its people. Many call for student exchanges to enable the countries to "vanish international misunderstanding." And nearly all constantly thank the students who they claim are doing so much "to show us the need to democracy...