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Word: dispels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger in what is a harmless and . If enough people take seriously, the result an influx of admissions every bit as dull and as the colleges the author . (On the encouraging it should be added picture of a consciously Birmingham on the book could dispel most thoughts The Ivy League has done nothing to interrupt the flow of very bad books about American colleges...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: The Ivy League: Unvarying Mediocrity? | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel completely any snivelling doubts that things are getting better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excelsior | 2/27/1961 | See Source »

With the passage of Professor Gill's extended tutorial proposals, the naive might suppose that tutorial was now available to every competent undergraduate outside of the natural sciences and music. A quick look at Social Relations and Economics, two of the largest departments in the University, should dispel any such illusions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cave Tutor | 2/23/1961 | See Source »

Surely the "Peace Corps" proposal has aroused high hopes. As soon as Kennedy spoke, hopeful men saw visions of plane-loads of young people flying off to dispel poverty, illiteracy and disease. After years of seeming drift, a proposal for initiative in foreign affairs was bound to win support-especially if its title featured the magic word "Peace...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Peace Corps' Proposal Raises Hopes, Challenges | 11/19/1960 | See Source »

...picketers hope a show of membership strength will dispel reported public apathy occasioned by the integration of some Southern lunch counters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickets To Protest Denial Of Negroes' Voting Rights | 11/3/1960 | See Source »

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