Word: dispels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obsessed by mutually contradictory impulses, and his mordant humor is best expressed by standing acceptable ideas on their heads. When one character painstakingly discovers irrefutable evidence that there is a God, he is persuaded to destroy it on being reminded that, for believers, "an absolute, demonstrated certainty tends to dispel faith and hope...
...Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.) expressed hope that the HYRC visit would dispel the "impression that a donkey is the Harvard mascot." Salton-stall will host a luncheon tomorrow in honor of the Club members in the New Senate Conference Room...
William P. Travis '54, professor of Industrial Management at M.I.T. and assistant to Professor Leontief at the conference, commented yesterday that he felt that the U.N. report would have "no specific influence" on the Geneva conference. However, "the report will help to dispel the notion that disarmament will inevitably have harmful economic consequences," he stressed...
...hour exams approach and the need for escape increases, one is tempted to brave the snow and sleet and slush to reach Tremont Street and try the movies offered this week. But take care, for not all the films playing this week are designed to dispel anxiety...
...Committee counsel, eager to dispel the picture of HUAC given by its critics, beams as he shows the secretaries to the visitor. With a chuckle, he asks him, "We're not ogres...