Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geometric symmetry of his model or subject. He established a central vertical and the subject is then drawn between balancing diagonals and their reciprocals. In the process of the drawing, the lines of the representation take the place of the lines of construction, which in the end disappear...
...curious singing noise, like the hum of bees, made itself heard in the distance. I was about to inquire the reason when Eddas clutched my arm convulsively and pointed to the rear. Turning as rapidly as I could, I was just in time to see a mounted figure disappear behind a ridge a mile away. At the same moment 'Ham and--" gave a grunt and indicated a group of three camel men to the right and almost abreast of us, but at a distance of a mile or more. They were evidently attempting to head us off, for their Meharis...
...best preventive of rabies is to muzzle all dogs until all signs of rabies disappear from a district. In 1902 England did this, and also required that all dogs imported into the country be quarantined for six months. It had not a single case of rabies in dogs or any other animals from 1902 until the World War when aviators carried their pets above and over quarantine. Another preventive is the use of prophylactic serum for animals, manufactured by most of the biological chemical houses. The Louisville authorities would like either or both of these preventives applied to their district...
...expected that any present day treatment of the Jew would lay emphasis on the quite secondary but popular problems of religion and of Palestine. Mr. Wise's attitude toward the former is an assumption that as theological faith it will disappear along with theological Christianity. Of Palestine, while enthusing over its possibilities as an experimental station for Jewish ideals, the author admits that it cannot solve the Jewish problem as such...
...lies in the sane recognition of the marked difference between Jew and Gentile, and the mutual benefits which ultimately arise from it. As Mr. Wise concludes, "For if once it be accepted as a fact that the Jewish group, the Jewish people, even the Jewish problem, is not to disappear but is to go on as a distinctive part of the composite life of the world, there may come into and through the life of Israel much that will be of value both to itself and to all mankind...