Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several years later the child surfers a psychological disturbance, vague and terrifying, traceable to the misguided influence of the lady's husband (Harvey Stephens), who has always imagined himself to be the father. She then recalls her savant-lover, now more eminent than ever, who is able to dispel the child's psychosis. The problem arises as to whether the lovers shall enlighten the cuckold and depart with their son. But much is manifestly owing to this man, who worships the child as his own. Therefore the doctor departs again on his lonely, scientific wanderings...
...Harvard Medical School will continue its public lectures this winter; and once more many will have the opportunity to hear the authoritative word on common diseases. Helpful advice distributed gratis can dispel much of the misunderstanding which shrouds preventative treatment. The value of such advice and of general discussion of Hygiene cannot be overstressed...
...spectator of the new tendency to accept the English ideal of playing the game for the game's sake: that it is better to lose a cleanly played good match than to win a poorly contested one. Such symptoms of saneness in the Harvard attitude toward football sufficiently dispel the bugaboo of overemphasis. Perhaps super-patriotism has become passe and the ultramodern plays or watches his football with pleasure as the guiding principle...
Second of the endorsers was a man with a name to dispel any doubts that any one might have entertained concerning the significance of the process or the nature of the testimonials. He was Samuel Harden Church, 72, president of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh,? onetime vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, an officer of the Legion of Honor, author of many books (Oliver Cromwell, A History, a 15-volume Corporate History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West of Pittsburgh}, a Republican campaign speaker, possessor of a sword presented to him by Governor
...been lost in the avalanche of criticism so that all that remains of the instance is that Harvard has made a terrible mistake. After the ball is ever a press release makes its appearance, carefully explaining that all is well, and optimistically presupposing that this shaft of illumination will dispel the gloom of several weeks accumulation. The press started the excitement and now the University steps reluctantly into the limelight in an attempt to set matters right, but unfortunately, the melody lingers...