Word: direful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just read and observed the free publicity Slurring Subscriber "Doc" Joseph Sullivan from this city has received in yourcolumns [TIME, Aug. 9, p. 6], after "dire threats on his part of canceling subscription etc., etc. Without intimidation might I also hope to get these few lines published as being one of your many subscribers who will by now have drawn your attention to the fact that "Oscar" in photograph on p. 44, Aug. 9 issue, is a pike and not a pickerel, as the accompanying article mentions...
...anxious to know whether or not the orders for such emergency treatment actually came from a physician. Journals of medicine as well as standard surgical texts specifically advise against such application of greasy materials to second or third degree burns, even in dire emergency. Aside from some easing of the pain, the only effect this treatment could have would be harmful. Physicians know that a burned area is not greatly different from any other wound, and as such, is very easily infected by impromptu therapy from sympathetic onlookers...
...wish to express my very deep appreciation of the quick insight of the faculty members and students into the dire need of the wounded men who have fought for the legitimate government of Spain against Fascism...
...More dire than Detroit's were two other school scandal notes of the week. In Brooklyn, District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan began crusading against "racketeers" who, he charged, had induced students in six Brooklyn high schools to sell their companions 600 contraceptive devices. At Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College (Stillwater), the Student Council received a petition with 602 signatures demanding that all entering students be given the Wassermann blood test for syphilis...
...Monster referred to was the dire denizen of Loch Ness, Scotland, first fabled in the world press in 1933. Opener of its 1937 season was an announcement by the Right Rev. Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair, Bart, (no kin to Dr. Reid Blair) that, at the age of 83, he was organizing an expedition to trace and trap the creature, bring it back alive...