Word: allay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be folly to deny that the Wets' have made considerable gain in the past few years. . . . The defeat of Governor Smith did nothing to allay the sentiment against Prohibition. Instead it produced what might be called an emotional hangover. . . . The candidacy of Governor Smith was beneficial to the cause of Prohibition. Before he became a candidate the prohibition and temperance organizations had been disintegrating...
...operetta retained its airy, foolish charm. The girls of the chorus, it must be confessed, were pretty though perhaps not artful dodgers; and if the principals were at times too violent, their merry unconsciousness of this fact, fitting the good-humored mood of the piece, did much to allay the defect...
Meanwhile the do-nothing clique of politico-militarists who ousted Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
...League of Nations, domestic questions, . . . or questions affecting a third party." It is hard to imagine a quarrel in which one of these clauses could not be invoked. But it there is one, it is the rankling question of debt settlement; and this treaty is obviously intended to allay the fear of the French that the United States might attempt elsewhere the militant methods of debt collection that she has found so successful in South America. Lately the French cartoonists have been making pointed pictorial insinuations about the inexplicably large navy which their star-spangled Shylock is providing...
...everyone knows, diphtheria, highly infectious disease, affects the throat. Germs, rod-shaped, breed there and give off toxins which cause the peculiar fever. Antitoxins can allay the fever. They are made by the blood of horses which have been methodically infected with diphtheria toxin. Such antitoxins constitute one of the few remedies which have a specific effect in treating disease. Without their injection the throat of a diphtheric child (most victims are from two to ten years of age) is apt to close up through the rapid forming of a false membrane across the air passage...