Word: dispelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual single love interest, "Bachelor's Daughters" travels on a quadruple con game that grinds to a sleepy halt after the first ten minutes. Not even the superb artistry of Adolph Menjou, cast as a floor walker bulldozed into playing father to the feminine fortune hunters, can dispel the disappointed and belligerent hush that soon blankets the audience...
...solely to those of the usual array of collected prep and suburban schools, would be the shot in the arm necessary to spread the notion of Harvard scholarships to a greater cross-section. A closer cultivation of educational advisers in the same industrial-rural area schools might dispel much of the gloom that these indifferently-informed sources pass on concerning the cost of a Harvard education and the possibilities for scholarship aid. Lastly, expansion of the Harvard book prizes and other Alumni awards might measurably close the gap that separates the less affluent high schools, and their graduates, from intimate...
Mexican painting is as familiar to U.S. art lovers as chile con carne, but the only Canadian art most Americans see are the Indian chiefs and yellow wheat fields on railway posters. This week a handsome book on the subject (Canadian Painters; Oxford University Press, $6.50), appeared to dispel the northern mist...
...been in pronouncing childbirth to be a painful and dangerous ordeal." But fear inhibits the muscles which open the womb and thrust out the child, causing pain and compounding the fear into further suffering. He claims to have made childbirth a pleasure for many women by 1) starting to dispel their fears and ignorance soon after they become pregnant, 2) teaching them in advance how to relax and make the child come easily, 3) giving them close, sympathetic attention during the early stages of labor, when many doctors and nurses abandon the patient to a lonely state of terror...
Maximum objective of the meeting was sufficient agreement between the Three to permit convocation of a general peace conference and to dispel the clouds of suspicion that hover over UNO. The conferees, however, stressed mininium objectives. Said Byrnes: "It will not be a bad sign if this meeting does not produce any communiqué announcing agreements." Said Bevin: "Patience is a more important word than hope...