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...heroic days, now several centuries past, when two opposing armies debouched upon a field of battle, each advanced a herald to warn the other of its aims, the intentness of its purpose, the justice of its cause, the dire results to be expected if the other did not summarily yield and to hold forth the promise that all would be well if its demands were immediately complied with...
Exodus. Brigham spellbound the leaderless city, seized command, sold the Mormon temple to a French Communist, led his people a dire trek westward to escape U. S. jurisdiction. By the time they reached Utah, the U. S. had taken that territory from Mexico, but Brigham settled there notwithstanding...
John T. Scopes, teacher of science in a Tennessee high school, has been indicted by a grand jury upon the dire charge of teaching the theory of evolution to the innocent children of Rhea County. Therein, lies a situation which might be called a tragic farce...
...more probably, there would issue from University Hall a dire ukase. An individual clothes license, to be surrendered on demand to any "goody" or section man, might be issued to each undergraduate. Men on probation would be forbidden shirts and sock; none but Dean's List students could flaunt purple night-shirts: and P. B. K. scholars would maintain a sole monopoly on Oleaqua...
...Binghamton dinner tables next evening, the Binghamton Press was read with interest. Ostensibly concerned over the dire condition of itself and its fellows, the Press agreed with Pastor Shaw, and forthwith invited him to drop in at the Press office whenever he chose within three weeks, to take over, "without any limitations or restrictions of any kind, the editorial direction" of the paper...