Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Friendship drive begins the final day of its campaign today with a bleak prospect of raising its quota of $4,000 by the closing hour this evening. At a late hour last night, although more than a third of the collectors' reports were not in the hands of the Committee, the total collection amounted approximately to only $982. The amount is discouragingly low but the committee expects to finish up its final day with the most intensive canvas which it has yet made...
...struts, her hindlegs coiled springs. Sunny Meade Petit Poilu, Brussels griffon, owned by Mrs. William D. Goff, strutted among the others, well knowing that he would have made but a scant meal for any one of them, but looking at the mountainous beasts, his rivals, with a gaze of bleak hauteur. Long silky hair clothed his bandy legs in elegance and provided him with a beard which would have commanded respect from a Saxon monarch...
...another bellower cupped his hands, vociferated: "Long cheer for Pound!" A tense arm ticked off three hips; through the bleak air, refracted by the wall of Langdell Hall, came from 700 leather throats a stupendous roar?Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, with nine POUNDS on the end. The Dean did not appear. Reluctantly, in little groups, the 700 went away...
...Long Island, its bleak, brown countryside frozen stiff and hard by the hoary winds of December, never looked more woebegone and distant that it did today. . . . An old manor house, the property of one of the first governors of New York state, situated on the top of a little knoll at Plandome, is the residence of a half-brother of our wife, Martin Littleton, the well-known criminal attorney...
Cornell treated Penn's unbeaten team to a bleak first period. Long punts and off-tackle thrusts kept the Big Red team on an offensive that wilted only before its own fumbles. Then Penn uncorked her air game and three touchdowns whistled over. The final whistle ended Penn's first unbeaten season since 1908. Score: Penn 20, Cornell...