Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations. Dr. Kanner insists that every cause which disturbs the child emotionally should be removed?family quarreling, fear of a drunken father, a whining mother, oppressive brothers and sisters. Often peaceful, regular life in a boarding school or summer camp will cure such children...
...further studies it will be possible to find organic chemical compounds which, injected or given in the diet, will protect against the poisoning which leads slowly to atypical growth and to cancer. We believe, also, that in this way it will be possible to make a cancer slowly disappear, by re-establishing the organic defences which will take care of the growth, which will be absorbed slowly by autolysis, phagocytosis, or normal connective-tissue growth. Such a cure of cancer seems more logical than a specific remedy with power to kill cancer cells and leave untouched normal cells...
...Huey Pierce Long rose at his front-row desk and took the Senate floor last week. Before the chamber was a resolution to keep the ghost of NRA above ground for another nine months. If the resolution were not passed within four days, even that ghost would disappear and President Roosevelt would be left looking sick and silly. In high good spirits, therefore, Senator Long set out to make the President look sick and silly by talking the NRA resolution to death. He had been out of the headlines for weeks and needed fresh publicity to re-establish his nuisance...
Princess Mary recovered from the appendectomy uneventfully. But her quick excitability and easy fatigue did not disappear. The slightest exertion set her atremble. These and other peculiarities led Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's personal physician, Dr. Knuthsen and Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, an Australian who achieved eminence as a London thyroid surgeon, to conclude that Princess Mary suffered with exophthalmic goitre...
...menace will disappear only when the higher authorities are given either the initiative for appointment or promotion, or an effective final decision. Less intimately connected with the machinery of the departments, and hence less liable to the prejudice of personal opinion, they will also be in a far better position to survey and draw from the entire educational field in the search for new and different talent. With a full sense of our temerity in broaching this almost sacred question, we earnestly recommend to the Corporation, the open minded consideration and appraisal of Yale's traditionally hierarchial methods. Yale Daily...