Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the newly materialized class of '25, I hope that I will not be thought presuming if I venture a few words, in a critical vein, unfortunately, on the editorial which appeared in the issue of October 4th entitled "A Dire Symptom...
...often that the optimism of youth turns to dire forebodings about the future, but there are times when such thoughts are thrust forcibly upon us. The present case in point is the possibility of a fire in the Yard--a possibility suggested by the frequency of smaller blazes in Cambridge since last fall, especially those in Claverly and Bertram Halls. Fortunately no great damage has yet been done, nor any lives endangered. But could the same be said if a fire were to break out in Sever or in Harvard...
...proved conclusively that under modern conditions even the victor in war would lose by war. It proved that thesis conclusively, and yet Europe went to war, and the war not only brought about material prostration that must be long continued, but it left conditions and passions that threaten further dire conflict, unless the psychology of civilized nations is altered...
...Europe. It is indeed reaching the continental countries at present, but it is doubtful whether it is yet arriving in quantities sufficient to arrest the spread of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The American people must be made to realize that the infant republics of Europe are in the dire need of our aid, and that far from the armistice and treaty having brought about the success of the cause for which we were struggling, they rather added to the responsibilities of the Allies and particularly of America...