Word: direful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest things about Boston is that it is one of the best places to go away from in the world. Rocky coast, sandy beach, blue-grey hills are all within easy striking distance. Consequently the effects of week-ending at Harvard are not usually so dire as those reported from the institutions which are situated in the country, and whose undergraduates therefore feel an attraction to the slightly spurious delights of the metropolis...
...constantly recurring misapprehensions about the oncoming House Plan is the imagined havoc it will play on the corporate spirit of Yale. Undergraduates and alumni alike have conjured up all sorts of dire pictures of the ensuing conditions here five or ten years hence. They have visualized conditions ranging from the prospect of sending their sons to Summer House rather than Yale to the spectacle of Yale beset with a conglomeration of small social entities...
...Fred E. Britten, secretary of the State Republican organization, wrote President Hoover a rebellious letter in which he said: "In the name of God and for the sake of righteousness as well as the economic prosperity of Florida I plead with you to withdraw this nomination." He threatened dire reprisals unless the President appointed men chosen by Mr. Skipper...
...travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled by the spending of $10,000,000 on the ships and their accessories, were glum last week when the R-101 sailed from her Cardington hangar. Nor were they as joyous...
...General Overseer Voliva, last week was a bad week for an invasion. Stanch fundamentalist, he believes the world "is square and flat like a sheet of paper," offers $1,000 to anyone who can disprove him. When the Graf Zeppelin started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...