Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Free State Government issued a report concerning the rebel army, contending that that force is now in dire straits and that it may be expected soon to surrender...
...perhaps he is longing to be back that he might assume the post of dictator of styles. For the time when a suit was a suit and a hat a hat is passed. Warnings and ridicule of the increasing vanity of man can be laid to despairing editors in dire need of filler who under such circumstances will draw unwarranted conclusions from a single individual rich enough to purchase hair cut, shave, shampoo, and tonic all at once...
...life in the formation of character among students. One hears it even in parts of continental Europe where dormitories have hitherto been quite unknown, and in America many of the eastern colleges are now much better equipped with halls of residence than we are at Harvard. Save for our dire need of chemical laboratories, no greater benefit could be conferred upon the University, and no more enduring memorial can be created, than by a dormitory for students...
...psychology of the situation is very puzzling. Assuming, of course, that he has dire need of sleep, (or else he would not forego listening to the lecture), why does he snore? Is this the result of a complex, a guilty conscience or a bad meal? In any case, were he not to choose such a conspicuous way of rousing himself, we could all sympathize heartily. There is nothing like a good rest now and then with nothing to disturb...
Horrible discord, and . . . dire was the noise...