Word: disappearance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Asdir, the Riffian capitol, was hailed last week by the French press as the definitive beginning of Abd-el-Krim's downfall. His cause, of course, was doomed as soon as the French began to take the rebellion seriously but newspaper readers will be sorry to see him disappear from the day's news, if only because, as this latest playfulness with his minister shows, he does things in such a vivacious manner...
...CRIMSON believes that if such changes as these were effected, such popular caricatures as the goggle-eyed Phi Beta Kappa man on the one extreme and the ox-like tramp-athlete on the other would disappear from the Yard, and there would remain to pursue their fullest development those who hold to the Greek ideal--the normal, healthy, intelligent students...
...Chrysler Corporation's insurance is to be handled by the Palmetto Fire Insurance Co. of Sumter, S. C. If it were split up among other companies, much of their present opposition would probably disappear...
...Argument for these reductions is based on a forthcoming Treasury surplus. Mr. Couzens guessed, since the amount of surplus is not yet known or exactly predictable, that it would be about $400,000,000. He estimated that about $166,000,000 of this would disappear with the reduction of the "nuisance" taxes, something less than $10,000,000 by the exemption of incomes under $5,000 and the remainder by the reduction of surtaxes. The abandonment of taxes on capital gains and losses might even operate to increase Federal revenue. In detail, the argument concerning the proposed changes...
...adult. The child may be a rudimentary adult but, from the standpoint of the psychologist, the child undergoes a decided change before it becomes an adult. The adult is not an enlargement of the child, but a development from it, in which new traits may appear and old traits disappear. If the child is merely a miniature, you could predetermine what the adult will be in all respects. This is hardly possible...