Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government of China at Peking does as much good as a drop of oil on a stormy sea. It tries to exert its calming influence over the whole 3,913,560 square miles of Chinese territory, but the angry waves of resistance caused by the warlike Tuchuns rapidly dispel the feeble efforts of a still more feeble Government. The Tuchuns-military governors -are literally heads of warring factions. The estimated number of armed men is roughly 1,000,000, who are scattered over the vast face of China and among an estimated population of 320,650,000. General Wu, believed...
...disagreement as to whether the vote was to be taken on the question of joining the League or on the merits of the question as disclosed by the affirmative and negative. Advance press notices left doubt on the matter. Ex-Governor McCall, in his introductory remarks, said nothing to dispel it; and reports of the event in today's papers only show that it exists outside of College as well as in. Some people in the audience seem to have voted on one question and others seem to have voted on another. All that can be safely inferred from their...
...feared that it is not the part of the Student Council to interfere in the activities of the College in this way, the fact that the need is so real and that in former years the Council has taken on itself this simple responsibility, should serve to dispel any such anxiety...
...exhibited elsewhere is receiving visiting teams; the premature refusal on the part of the Student Council to sponsor the conference might also have been interpreted as evidence of coldness. By fostering friendly intercourse between "courteous host and all-approving guest" --to use Byron's words--, Harvard will help to dispel any illusions the country at large may entertain as to her supposedly unfriendly attitude...
...very decided blow at parochialism in the election of a non-Yale man as president of Yale. It does not follow that Dean Angell will be a better president because he is not a Yale graduate, but it is unquestionably true that this fact will do much to dispel any impression of inbred localization of view. There were Yale men before the university corporations who undeniably would have been passable or even good presidents. That the final choice fell upon a man without this sentimental plea to back him cannot but make the country feel that there...