Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piled up in 40 days, an anticipated 1939 gross of $600,000, net of $150,000. Portable derricks seem to be catching on. Humble Oil Co. has ordered an initial two. If enough U. S. producers figure the same way, the derrick, ugly symbol of a fabulous industry, may disappear from the skyline...
...socialists or "gradualists," and "New Deal liberals." Such a plan would clarify the relations of the various groups in the Student Union, and enable them to work out a common denominator of belief and action on which all would be agreed. The present sub rosa factional fights would largely disappear, and policy would be fought out openly on "party" lines. The suspicion that the H.S.U. is illicitly dominated by a minority group would evaporate, and Harvard's liberals could get on with the task of defending and extending democracy in a hostile world...
...After this war dictatorships will not disappear, but totalitarianism will be greatly increased," said Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, in a discussion at Dunster House last night...
...shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
...birth, an empire-hater by conviction. "Enemies of peace," she cried, "are not all in Germany or Russia. They are right here. They are those who refuse to relinquish vested interests. . . . That word empire is connected with a history of horror and slaughter. I hope to see it disappear from our vocabulary...