Word: disappearance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was a time when men told fortunes by the stars, when Louis XI quailed before the coursing of the planets, when Tycho Brahe observed the passage of a comet and thereupon fore told the coming of a scourge out of the North who should conquer and disappear. So was Gustavus Adolphus preceded by prophecy. So the stars entered intimately into the lives of men, Upon the story of the telescope nations waited in suspense...
...Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted away in a breath...
...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...