Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council committee. Such a committee might well expedite the process of securing dependable student help and of guaranteeing extra-curricular maintenance service at a price harried student treasurers can consider. In any event it would assume responsibility for a problem University Maintenance cannot handle, and incidentally, dispel much of the sincere but misled criticism now heaped on that department...
Prothalamium is a novel for readers who have time to read a book twice. It is a razzle-dazzle literary experiment whose pedigree, all too obviously, reads: by James Joyce out of Virginia Woolf. To help forestall and dispel confusion while following his cast of "Narrators," Author Philip Toynbee provides a lettered and numbered graph (something Joyce never did for Prothalamium1's mighty ancestor, Ulysses). Given this pretentious orientation, reading Prothalamium is something like doing sums in your head: drop one character and carry...
Although the original Committee on General Education pulled few punches in examining the role of secondary schools, little has occurred recently to dispel the widely-held impression that the Committee was beating invisible wings when it spoke out on the function of the high and prep school. Within the academic walls undergraduates have seen the visible fruits of "General Education in a Free Society," but little, unfortunately, seems to have drifted out into the public and private schools to ground the future college student with the kind of training which should lead up to the newly inaugurated program...
...York idle) flew so thick & fast that many manufacturers were hard put to deny them all. Up-&-coming Henry Rosenfeld, Inc. (TIME, June 10) was so harassed by reports of its imminent failure that it finally took full-page ads in Manhattan's Sunday papers to dispel them with its balance sheet. Main point: cash in bank, $1,119,006.70; "owed to banks...
Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...