Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier Hiram Johnson, fidgeting for the fray, demanded longer battle hours, suggested night fighting for a change. Suddenly, as if to dispel any notion that they were employing the famed desultory tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...
...speed shown by the squad helps to dispel the gloom that has been hovering over Soldiers Field because of injuries and Coach Horween's dissatisfaction. The appearance of B. Ticknor in civilian clothes also helped to inspire the squad. The big center, still nursing a bad leg, appeared in better condition than he has all week, and the chances that he might be used as substitute center tomorrow improved greatly. If he is at all able to play it is fairly safe to say that Coach Horween will use him part of the time...
...child. When she threatens blackmail, they scuffle. She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron. Her opponent then hides the body in a closet and begins a futile, agonizing pantomime of ease. Brought to trial between the acts, he is acquitted. His brotherly friends prevent him from suicide, dispel his remorse...
...privilege of tourists to have their imports valued on the wholesale price. The reasons why they ordinarily do not are: 1) Ignorance, which the Government has not tried to dispel; 2) The fact that to have goods so valued it is necessary to have them sent to the appraisers' stores. This involves delay of several days. In addition the tourist must bear the risk of any damage that may befall his belongings in being dragged to and from the appraisers' stores...
Sulphate Fog. Just within Canada on the western border is a copper plant which belches forth a fog of copper sulphate, destructive to orchards in the State of Washington for miles around. Washington, D. C., has, so far unsuccessfully, attempted to dispel this sulphate fog. but control over the winds seems the solution...