Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chrysler Corporation's insurance is to be handled by the Palmetto Fire Insurance Co. of Sumter, S. C. If it were split up among other companies, much of their present opposition would probably disappear...
...Argument for these reductions is based on a forthcoming Treasury surplus. Mr. Couzens guessed, since the amount of surplus is not yet known or exactly predictable, that it would be about $400,000,000. He estimated that about $166,000,000 of this would disappear with the reduction of the "nuisance" taxes, something less than $10,000,000 by the exemption of incomes under $5,000 and the remainder by the reduction of surtaxes. The abandonment of taxes on capital gains and losses might even operate to increase Federal revenue. In detail, the argument concerning the proposed changes...
...adult. The child may be a rudimentary adult but, from the standpoint of the psychologist, the child undergoes a decided change before it becomes an adult. The adult is not an enlargement of the child, but a development from it, in which new traits may appear and old traits disappear. If the child is merely a miniature, you could predetermine what the adult will be in all respects. This is hardly possible...
...fault to be found is not with the theory but with the present application. Improve and revitalize the system, and the existing waste energy and effervescent sentimentalism will disappear...
...College. It has been said that one may know all the girls in Boston but as for knowing all the members of one's own class, c'est a rire, the obstacles of numbers is too great. From this numerical incubus arises a difficulty. The personal element tends to disappear from instruction. In any college the quantity of really eminent professors is limited; the more students in a college the less opportunity any student has to receive from these eminent men a stimulation and assistance adapted to his individual needs. Enter the machinery as a substitute and the tutorial plan...