Word: disappearance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...
...spanned the North Atlantic in heavier-than-air machines: no woman had succeeded. Great interest, therefore, centered on the flight of Miss Amelia ("Lady Lindy") Earhart (TIME, June 11) when at length her trimotored Fokker Friendship left the water at Trepassey, Newfoundland, headed toward Britain. Would she disappear from sight, sharing the fate of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim ? Would she turn back as Viennese Lilli Dillenz had done? Would she be forced down as was Ruth Elder...
Stores were the first to be closed, and then by a little judicious use of his authority and skillful tactics a traffic tangle was created that made the Westwood welkin resound with horns for the rest of the day. An ice cream truck soon had its cargo disappear down the gutters. A wedding party was held up and only escaped after two hours delay. So confident in his success did Mr. Meyer become that he did not hesitate to give his wife a summons for Sunday driving. Before the irate Justice was placated the police force...
...joint session of the American Association of Museums and the American Federation of Arts. "We need to put more effort into translating art into the daily lives of the people," said President Coolidge. "If we surround ourselves with forms of beauty, the evil things of life would tend to disappear and our moral standards would be raised...
Writing in the Harvard Advocate, he expresses the belief that at meetings of prominent alumni there is a dearth of Phi Beta Kappa men Key men, he says are likely to disappear but he doesn't give us any information as to the where abouts of this Part of Missing Phi Betes...