Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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little-publicized nephew of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, went on a beer-drinking bout, returned home, had a spat with his bride of less than a year, told her he was "going to disappear." After spending the night in Long Island hotel, where employes reported he had arrived in a boisterous state, moody Andrew Whitfield drove to Roosevelt Field, climbed into the cockpit of his small, silver Taylor-Cub monoplane, told attendants he was off to Brentwood, 20-odd miles away. Flyer Whitfield then nosed his plane into a mild easterly wind, disappeared from sight. Next afternoon an eight-State search...
Denied the use of human subjects, researchers make most of their cancer experiments on animals. One vicious type of animal cancer-"mouse sarcoma 180"-is highly resistant to such ordinary methods of treatment as radium and X-ray therapy. In very few cases does it dry up and disappear spontaneously. More important, mouse sarcoma 180 is a reliable subject on which to test the effectiveness of various treatments for human cancer...
Some weeks ago Big Red Planner Mezhlauk quietly disappeared and so did his brother Ivan, a member of the Higher School Commission. Another Big Red who disappeared during 1937 was the Russian Commissar for Finance Grigoriy Grinko. Not one of the 1,143 deputies of the Supreme Soviet who elected the new Council asked any questions last week about Mezhlauk, about Grinko, about any of the other Big Reds who continue to disappear, put away by Stalin's Secret Political Police. They also asked no questions about the Government's policies or plans...
...sometimes been confused with the pains caused by heart disease. There is no reason for such confusion, according to Dr. Levy. Coffee pains are mild; they last a comparatively long time; they are not brought on or aggravated by exercise; there is no sign of organic heart disease; they disappear when coffee is withdrawn from the diet. Dr. Levy cited two cases: a doctor and a lawyer, both of whom suffered from coffee pains for years but continued to lead active lives without further ill effect when they quit drinking coffee...
...Litvinoff was my chief. He was in time past a courageous revolutionary who had Lenin's confidence. He has shown his intelligence on a score of different occasions in world conferences. What tragic fate has overtaken him to see his best collaborators, his closest friends, disappear -to see the whole framework of his service broken and to be obliged now to approve what has been done, even to praising the executioners of his associates...