Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are three things which we cannot renounce. First, we wish to keep our submarine fleet which we believe is strictly necessary for the defense of our shores and our colonial empire. Second, we must assure the protection of our colonial routes, otherwise our colonial empire will disappear. Third, we cannot forget that our needs must be calculated after account has been taken of the fact that France has coasts in two widely separated seas...
...Rockefeller's usual remark about writings like this book, is: "If I step on that worm I will call attention to it. If I ignore it, it will disappear...
Last week, however, the D. T. & I. flowers drooped slightly and the employes were somewhat perturbed. The big-lettered F O R D on D. T. & I. bridges was destined soon to disappear. Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. had sold his property to an unannounced purchaser. Agent in the transaction was the firm of Charles D. Barney & Co., Manhattan brokers. Probable real purchaser was Pennroad Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad holding company. Whoever the new buyer, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's Ole Massa had certainly sold it down the river...
...Kellogg treaty for the renunciation of war is a "declaration" of "faith and idealism" which must be followed by "action." It must mean "all armament hereafter shall be used only for defense." But "we are still borne on the tide of competitive building. . . . Fear and suspicion . . . will never disappear until we can turn this tide toward actual reduction." He insisted on finding a "rational yardstick" for naval comparisons, and added: "Limitation upward is not our goal but actual reduction ... to lowered levels...
...optimist and states in strong and, I do not doubt, sincere words her belief that war will disappear. ... I do not share that optimism nor do I think that a philosophic view of the world would regard war as absurd, but most people who have known it regard it with horror...