Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Davis, going into new country, began to use new weapons, although he did not abandon the oil scandals, the Republican tariff. His first topic was irrigation and reclamation. He cited the mis- fortune which has overtaken many settlers on irrigation projects; told how, in many cases, settlers were in dire distress because the Government's estimated cost of reclaiming their lands had been greatly increased by the time the actual project was completed. He quoted the Republican platform which recommended the curtailing of irrigation projects to prevent overproduction, and then exclaimed...