Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Aggies, led by Jarrin' Jack Kimbrough, a 220-lb. steam roller, had mowed down 19 opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With Fullback Peter Layden tossing two magnificent forward passes and then plunging over...
Latin-American newspapers do not encourage women reporters. But a Brazilian newspaper, Diario de Noticias of Rio de Janeiro, last fortnight broke with Latin tradition, hired a female columnist. Said proud Diario: "This admirable woman, whose fascinating personality does not vanish behind the radiance of her husband's great importance, is not only a fine companion for the President but has a keen and brilliant mind and a generous heart. ..." Name of the column: My Day, by Eleanor Roosevelt. Flown to Rio thrice a week, My Day appears in Diario in both English and Portuguese, runs seven days behind...
...quorum to vote adjournment. Many a Congressman had already slipped away, would hate to plod back just for the formality of a vote. If he did not get his quorum, the 76th Congress, still technically in session, might, like the hunters of the boojum, softly and silently vanish away...
...Breley. "Sim Sala Bim" is not just a series of card tricks but a continuous spectacle. One minute Dante draws gallos of beer from a dry keg, the next he is producing ghosts from empty cabinets and making one of his chorus (let's call it a chorus) girls vanish into thin...
...enough to promise that he will try to save us, rather than one who cavalierly pretends that we are already saved." And it saw against him such powerful forces working to establish a one-party system that, if they succeed, "the possibility of creating a formidable opposition party will vanish for a long time to come." For the makings of an American fascism by way of a one-party Government, The Christian Century listed: 1) the vast political machines; 2) the Solid South; 3) "the economic blocs grateful for his [the President's] special legislation"; 4) peacetime conscription...