Word: dispell
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Breeder reactors, opening up a virtually limitless supply of power, will dispel a cloud that hangs over the future of mankind-the prospect that within a few centuries the earth's supply of coal and petroleum will be exhausted. Since modern civilization could not survive without economical sources of power, historians of the future may record that the train of atomic development beginning on Dec. 2. 1942 preserved the civilization that it sometimes seemed to threaten...
Doing nothing to dispel that image, Patterson said shortly before the fight: "If Liston should be lucky enough to win, I hope you'll accept him the way you've accepted me. You know, there's a little bit of good in everybody." For his part, Liston snarled: "I'll kill him. I'd like to run over him with an automobile...
...Shakespeare well knew, the sun's heat bred serpents and other monsters out of the mud of the Nile. With The Blue Nile, this ancient river of mystery has now been made the object of two studies that employ all the modern arts of research to dispel myths and muddy misconceptions. Alan Moorehead, an extraordinary journalist-turned-historian who examined the history of one of the river's sources in The White Nile, tells in his latest book what succeeds the great civilizations-Egyptian and Greek-that rose and fell with the Blue Nile as its annual floods...
...anti-jockism at Harvard bad as anti-intellectualism; type of personality under exists per se at Harvard, and no reason why a varsity dispel the erroneous triad types by joining a final club A's. To those who ask " hell are you doing down at muddy field with a bunch animals when you could be your knowledge by reading ?" the athlete can reply " a college experience" much validity and pride as a of the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Council, or any group...
Even if it could not present a unified policy recommendation, the Faculty Committee on the size of the College did dispel "all uneasy feeling" that an important issue was slipping by without being noticed. Robert G. McCloskey professor of Government and chairman of the committee, said yesterday...