Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strive to dispel the bitterness and the littleness of the few who still think and talk in terms of the old and utter selfishness, we are working towards the destruction of sectionalism, of class antagonism and of malice...
...Hampden does his level best with this nonsense, fails to dispel an impression that he appears in it because he lost a sporting election...
...Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure, significantly designated Committee A, almost alone makes News. Committee A does not pull its punches. Its reports are models of courageous investigation and forthright speaking. If the entire profession should ever nerve itself to act as vigorously as this militant minority speaks, it would dispel forever the lay conviction that professors as a class are learned mice...
...hope that you will dispel the rumor that 'September Morn' now is living in poverty," said he last week. "She isn't. She is 41 now, and alas, she is no longer as slender as when she posed for me. She is happily married to a wealthy French industrialist and has three lovely children. I cannot tell her name because she does not want to be embarrassed with remembrances of the days when she posed in the nude. . . . She was only 16 when I first started the picture. ... I think I succeeded in capturing her delicate charm...
...fine things devised by Science for the safety and convenience of men, little has been done to dispel the danger and delay inherent in fog. In 1935 it is still the rule, when fog blinds land and sea, to stand and wait until it clears. Last fortnight a great white pall closed in on the Atlantic seaboard, spread over the U. S. as far west as Iowa and Nebraska. When it lifted last week it had lasted four days, the worst since the five...