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...anxiety of the community which has become reflected in the undergraduate. The cold war has added an additional aura of anxiety and the tremendous competitions mixed with the desire for good makes to get into graduate schools have brought on all kinds of phony notions that are tough to dispel...
...were only the beginning. There was also hiking, and "the man in charge of a group of boy hikers has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus . . . There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death from thirst or privation. There are those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp, 'Go on without me. I can't make it.' " Once home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties. "Gee, it was great...
...that his figures are fallible, recalling that his average error in national elections is 3.4 percentage points. Nevertheless, the poll is still the best available measurement of the positions just outside the starting gate. Ike's lead should do nothing to inspire overconfidence among Republicans, although it may dispel some recent G.O.P. misgivings...
...telephone lines at the governor's mansion in Springfield were inadequate. Above all, Stevenson knew that if he permitted the impression that he was being run by the Democratic National Committee, by Harry Truman and the party bosses, he would lose votes. Last week he acted fast to dispel that impression...
Finley has attempted to dispel the myth-that Eliot is a clubman's haven. Although it does have an above-average proportion of prep school graduates...