Word: dread
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...situation worried Admiral Byrd. If his ships could not reach him, he would be isolated for another dread year. Some of his men would surely die. Some would go mad. The survivors would be obliged to live on short rations. He must forestall that...
...afternoon, Lectures given by the Harvard Medical School the medical profession, besides furthering its primary purpose of educating the public, is taking out an implicit insurance policy for its members. The heritage to the modern practitioner from the Indian medicine-man and the medieval herb-doctor is an intangible dread with which he is regarded by the world at large. This atmosphere of mysticism which surrounds the consulting room erects about the physician an impenetrable barrier which, in the eyes of the layman, places him beyond the pale...
...much diminished by the veil of mystery that hangs over the examinations. On the one side, Seniors should be notified early in September of the exact time of examination, so the souls made a bit callous to academic minutial by a summer of freedom may be properly filled with dread before the week of the required tests: and the time at which these are held, both in October and, for History and Literature, in February, might-well be postponed for one or two weeks beyond the dates appointed at present...
...course to be expected that as the hereditary defender of Harvard Individualism the CRIMSON should attack with promptitude anything that showed signs of giving corporeal form to the dread dragon of Paternalism. The University would have been disappointed had it failed to do so in so easily identifiable a case as Professor Coolidge's letter to prospective members of Lowell House who were in or near Group VI of the Rank List...
...brown-bearded French and riding master. They were married at City Hall, Manhattan, though she had wept for a religious wedding. At No. 212 West Twelfth Street (the dingy brick building still stands) she bore him the present Mme. Jacquemaire. Then he took her back to Paris?on the dread eve of 1870?where she bore him Michael and "Le Petit Pierre," now a businessman in Lima, Peru, where he raged last week at the slowness with which bulletins trickled in about his father...