Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the drastic reductions whereby seven Harvard athletic teams are to disappear from H. A. A. schedules, the sword will face the axe after this winter's season...
...lead phosphate to poison them. Before the patients lost control of their wrists or went mad, Dr. Osterberg gave them intravenous injections of calcium salts. This procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg's medication is that lead phosphate seems to have greater affinity for cancerous tissues than for normal tissues, accumulates in the cancers in lethal amounts before the general system is fatally poisoned...
...Arnold, 120 Ib. and just 5 ft., often looks absurd when she comes out on the court, smiling shyly up at her opponent whose subsequent beating becomes all the more distressing. It would be in accurate to say that Mrs. Arnold's apparent limitations as a player disappear when her matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited to a flyswatter than a tennis racket and wins on steadiness, indefatigable nerve and the brains which most women players either signally lack or fail to use. As Ethel...
...breaking my heart to see you suffer like this. I can't bear it. . . . Please tell them where it is. . . ." Then the pirates begin reaching into the ladies' dresses for their jewels. Routed at last, when the disgraced third officer heroically redeems himself, the pirates disappear leaving the Kin Lung much better off than it was before. MacArdle is exposed as an amiable human rat. Captain Gaskell seems better disposed toward China Doll. The drunken novelist is sneering at the barkeep...
Many economists scoffed at installment buying in 1928, blamed it for the market crash of 1929, predicted that it would disappear from U. S. business life. Yet installment selling has withstood Depression better than most other economic devices of the Turbulent Twenties. Particularly has it held its own in the automobile business, as the earnings of two of the biggest automobile finance companies dramatically testify. While nearly every motor company sank into the red manufacturing cars. Commercial Investment Trust and Commercial Credit continued to make handsome profits from financing the sale of the same cars...