Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to dispel the confusion which has been caused by the erroneous stories spread by the CRIMSON and Times-Republican spies, the Reactionary Society would firmly and publicly like to express the principles which led to the formation of the Society...
Soon after the election, Kubitschek announced his plans for a foreign tour before inauguration day (Jan. 31). Besides winning attention abroad for Brazil's crucial economic problems, he wanted to dispel the notion that he is a leftist with links of some sort to Brazil's illegal Communist Party. Kubitschek is actually a middle-roader, a founding member of the moderately conservative Social Democratic Party, but he accepted a leftish Labor Party leader as his vice-presidential running mate. On top of that, he failed to reject the Communist Party's bandwagon-climbing endorsement. Inevitably, opponents labeled...
...most novel aspect of Advanced Standing is the provision that could allow a qualified 13-year-old to enter the College directly from the eleventh grade. The Class of 1999 contains five students who skipped the senior year of high school, and a glance at their records helps to dispel any fear that they are either unprepared for Harvard studies or, on the other hand, prepared for nothing but Harvard studies. They are all taking respectable freshman subjects, with three of them, in fact, engaged in math studies more advanced than the elementary Math 1a. None of them is taking...
This small number who would have stayed away would seem to dispel the Department of Athletics' fear that broadcasting of home games might substantially cut down on attendance figures...
...discovered, by using radioactive isotopes as tracers, that plants photosynthesize protein as well as carbohydrates directly under light. Western scientists saw no evidence that the Russians have made important advances beyond Western accomplishments, but they were impressed by the Soviet revelations. Said one U.S. official: "This conference ought to dispel forever the idea that the Russians are stumblebums in science...