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...offense, the Crimson is expected to unveil at least a few new things, to get the feel of them before next week. Some top secret stuff, which has been seen at Soldiers Field this week, will be used only in dire emergency...
Sapers added: "Phillips Brooks House is in dire need of funds to supplement its endowments if its to continue its useful work among underprivileged children...
...years, there have been virtually no reprecusscions or dire affects from the female assault. "They've been completely and easily absorbed into the school" is the way Dean of Admissions Louis A. Toepter puts...
Overwhelming all else was an alarmist screaming, a warning of one dire menace after another detected within our own sheepfold. The Black Tide of Reaction. Bourbonism. The Pentagon Mind. Red Hysteria. Neo-Fascism. Finally these nightmares were to materialize into twin super-menaces of such terrifying dimensions as to eclipse totally such trumped-up bogies as Stalin...
...some 235 past and present Quiz Kids who were gathered to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the program's first appearance on the air. Some of the earliest Quiz Kids are now parents (one has three children). So far, the grown-up prodigies have met none of the dire fates that are often predicted for precocious sprouts: not one has cracked up mentally or got into any serious trouble. Not one has even turned out to be just plain shiftless...