Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleges of osteopathy. Last year he reported thus: "I shudder to envisage the result to women in childbirth if their care were placed in the hands of those who do not believe in and have not been thoroughly trained in the bacterial cause of infection. And what dire calamities would immediately and inevitably befall our great centres of population, if their supplies of food and water and their sewage systems were controlled, not by men who had devoted long and arduous years to the medical sciences, but by those uninstructed and misinformed individuals who believe disease (for instance, typhoid...
...theories could not explain it. His venomous aunt, de Grévy's sister, appeared. She suspected Bengt's mother of looting the estate. Bengt had to raise money at once. But his only wealthy friend was half-Jewish and Bengt, compromising his convictions in his dire need, found himself trapped in another labyrinth of intrigue...
...then knew what had happened, and my only thought now was to get home before greater consequences followed. I reached home with no greater annoyance than that occasioned by the fluttering play of colors. "A test of self control faced me, for I must tell my wife the dire possibilities that faced me. We went over the situation tearfully, and my beloved wife assured me, come what may, she would stand by me, and as events proved, she was the greatest comforter God ever gave to man. We could now only wait for the reaction, which came in about...
...years' existence. Dr. Mason, 54, lay critically ill in his Seattle hospital as result of a thrombosis. The thrombosis had compelled amputation of Dr. Mason's left leg (TIME, May 11) and last week threatened amputation of the other. No one knew better than Surgeon Mason how dire the consequences might be. Bravely he sent a "last message" to the medical assembly over which he could not preside. "I have an abiding and unlimited faith in your integrity. I know you will keep faith with the public and never let selfish interests for one moment divert you from...
...week went on it became apparent that a good part of the fear was generated no less by the actual victory of the Popular Front than by the uproarious Rightist press, whose dire predictions on the future of France could be compared in the U. S., perhaps, to a session of the National Association of Manufacturers under the New Deal. In France, however, these die-hard fulminations were taken seriously, with the result that the Paris Bourse was in a near-panic...