Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Answer. It would have been easy for the U.S. and Britain, with the exercise of a pinch of tact, to dispel this serious anger. The Chinese wanted an explanation, but for at least a week they got none, and as they waited their anger mounted by the hour. Veteran correspondents began to experience an unprecedented coolness from the Chinese. In lieu of an explanation all they could go on was results, and the results-in Malaya, in the Philippines, in the Indies-continued bad, however gallant the local actions...
Life at the Summer School was carried on as usual this year in a powder-puff atmosphere, but even the novelty of a co-ed Harvard failed to dispel the gloomy war clouds which hung over the Yard throughout the session...
...appeared a cartoon (see cut p. 16), admonishing employes to hold their tongues. It was old, and it was borrowed from the British, whose public information services are worse than the worst in Washington. It was also symptomatic of wishful official thinking in Washington that the best way to dispel confusion is to eliminate information about defense. "Information of value to the enemy" was a phrase heard increasingly often. That legitimate secrets ought to be kept secret, no loyal citizen denied. But the French Army ("best in the world") fell in a cloud of secrecy and not until Nazi bombers...
...200th birthday of a homely old university. To the shirt-sleeved sons of Penn seated in camp-meeting chairs on the Quadrangle grass, it spoke of Founder Ben Franklin, of Philadelphia, cradle of U. S. freedom, of old-fashioned sanity. But the ancient bell merely interrupted, did not dispel the hush of uncertainty and gloom that hung over Penn's Bicentennial...
Brilliant Physicist Ira Maximilian Freeman, who took his University of Chicago Ph.D. in 1928 when only 22, spends most of his time on abstruse equations of quantum theory. But Dr. Freeman is also a teacher (at Central College, Chicago), would like to explain science to the average citizen, dispel its "mysteries and marvels." In his latest book, Invitation to Experiment, published last week (Dutton; $2.50), he lures his readers into kitchen and bathroom, where they can dope out for themselves "the things that make the universe tick." With clever drawings and photographs, he simplifies molecular motion, gravitation, optics, everything...