Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than ordinary value in educational circles, but procrastination has little to excuse itself. The tutorial system has had years to prove its value in the Division of History, Government and Economics and its application to men concentrating in literature can be no cause for trepidation or fear of dire results...
...significance: Dire as the results of Negro emigration are for Georgia and the other Southern states, this movement is likely to bring good results to the country as a whole by helping to balance economic forces. In the North a shortage of labor will be relieved. The Negroes will get better pay and gradually achieve better standards of living. In the South the departure of the Negroes will cut down cotton production somewhat. The result will be higher prices for Southern farmers, better living conditions, improved methods of farming and better conditions for the Negroes who remain in the South...
...supposed, a collector for Ring-ling or the Bronx, but is more like an animated scarecrow. In Northern India, there is a small brown monkey which is a pest to fruit cultivators, but is protected none-the-less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers who snare the animals at night in nets and then loose them just over their neighbor...
...broad daylight of Sunday afternoon a ball of fire dropped from the skies and landed on a roof in Harlem's darktown quarter. To distant observers this phenomenon must have had as awful portent as Bardolph's flaming nose, perhaps dire prediction of the approaching eruption of such active volcanoes as Mount Borah, Mount La Follotte and Mount Hiram Johnson. But distance lends enchantment and observers who were not distant noon pricked this loinantie bubble of would-be anthology. The meteor proved to be nothing but a negro, dressed like Mephistopheles in crimson tights and tunic and hitched...
Samuel Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, created a sensation by a speech before the New Orleans Association of Commerce. He brought 500 business men to their feet cheering when he declared: " Samuel Gompers says dire things will happen if we have open shops. My God! Have any of you gentlemen ever seen Samuel Gompers? Will you tell me what there is to be afraid...