Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austro-Hungarian division and returned to Yale full of glory. When the University's Grand Old Man, Arthur Twining Hadley, resigned in 1921, Charles Seymour was boomed for the presidency. But he was then only 36 and in those days no Hutchins, Frank or Conant had arisen to dispel the prejudice against presidential youth...
...final solution to the present problems rests on men. Officers must be found that are capable to dispel gloom, warm up support, and check the present day tide away from extra-curricular activity. For in their function of providing light and cheery entertainment, amusing to audiences and players alike, the Clubs hold a unique and vital position in the college scene. If capable officers are chosen and vigorously supported in their plans for the ensuing year, a few changes and readjustments will send the Clubs off to a new and a fast start...
...Topeka all the Landon advisers except Ralph Robey, who lives at the Jayhawk Hotel where the others have their offices, are housed next door to the Executive Mansion. Hard-working and closemouthed, they are not seen much outside home, office or State House. Valiantly doing their bit to dispel the impression that Nominee Landon has copied the Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention...
...Yard (Lewis Stone) to extricate him, put the blame where it belongs. For a melodrama containing two violent deaths, The Unguarded Hour is chiefly remarkable for an inappropriate placidity which Franchot Tone's yawnings, head scratchings and frowns to denote the weight of great affairs do little to dispel. Best shot: Roland Young christening a baby...
...casual observer, what could seem more desirable or opportune than the offer of 25 years of peace by Germany? Twenty-five years in which France could develop her industries, encourage foreign trade and if necessary, gather around her a group of willing and eager allies to dispel forever the clouds of war which hover overhead now. And in those twenty-five years, Europe is thinking, what would Germany be doing? She would be rearming, strengthening herself militarily; economically; politically. Ten years and she would leap at the throat of France like a mad yet desperate dog, ready to rend from...