Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through repeated blood tests it was found that, in spite of intense heat, the character of the blood remained fairly constant. The party was able to dispel the notion that cold water and meat are injurious in hot climates...
...Last week it was announced that Governor General Roosevelt would return from the Philippines in mid-September to join the Hoover campaign, help dispel the notion that the Democratic presidential nominee belongs to T.R.'s breed...
...Paul address should have offered Mr. Roosevelt an excellent opportunity to rehabilitate his cause by offering a concrete attack on the Republican administration and the Smith proposals, and an intelligently organized, well buttressed program of his own. Nothing would have done more to dispel the stigma of demagogy than a speech of such a nature. But Mr. Roosevelt remained content to base his criticism of the Republican administration on partisan generally; his own proposals were of a platitudinous, wholly unconvincing nature. Mr. Smith's suggestions, moreover, were ignored, and Mr. Roosevelt patently refused to do battle with his accuser, referring...
Last week Britain fervently welcomed Andrew William Mellon, more as a savior than an Ambassador. All the denials in the world could not dispel the fixed British notion that this shy, fragile old man brought, tucked away in his shiny new diplomatic baggage, a U. S. solution to War Debts & Reparations. Newspapers printed column after column about his vast wealth, his patrician manners, his astuteness in finance and art collecting. A modest advertisement that someone with £250,000 to spend wanted to buy an art collection was ignorantly but persistently ascribed to the new little figure at the Court...
...regular meetings to discuss their problems and work, or by some adherence to a general outline of the basic material of the course. In the past they have held meetings only to discuss examinations. This would restrict to some degree their individual work, but it would go far to dispel the inky murk which often settles over the novices who take the course...