Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...when we are surrounded by troubles from which it seems impossible to escape, we must always go right forward and we will find that as we advance towards the thickest of our difficulties, they seem to recede from us and gradually as we step out with more courage, they disappear entirely...
...more touching, nothing more stirring to the sturdy, manly side of college men's natures, than the parting with classmates and fellow-students who go to uphold the honor of their college in contests like these football games. On no occasion in the course do class and society lines disappear so utterly, to be replaced by sympathetic union of heart and voice. And all this means quite as much to the team as to those who cheer. The thrill which follows the cheering gives an impetus to each man's determination which is sure to last him till the game...
...struggles at New York in competition for the "Mott Haven Cup." This fact has tended to depreciate the importance which the university as a whole puts upon this branch of athletics. We venture to say, however, that it will not be many years before all this prejudice will completely disappear. Certainly it is an enviable honor to win such a victory as Saturday's and Captain Thompson and his men may well feel pleased with their success...
...united church. Though men questioned his doctrine no one ever suggested that he had not the spirit of Christ. As a heavy fall of snow, that, for the time, blocks all communication among men, is melted away in the presence of a genial sun; so the barriers of sect disappear and must disappear before such a kindly personality as that of the gentle preacher of Harvard. Men like him do not break barriers, they melt; they do not make an attack, they create an atmosphere...
...that the South should win its independence, it was evident that the Northern and the Southern States would be driven by their permanent hostility to each other to change from the type of federal Union to that of consolidated governments. In this alteration all chance of local autonomy would disappear, probably never to exist again on this continent. Moreover, I saw plainly, as did every other rational person of my acquaintance, that the strife concerning slavery would afford a perennial source of war-breeding trouble between the North and the South...