Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bleak Gallows Hill, where Salem (Mass.) used to hang its witches', the staff of the M.I.T. Voo Doo had some good, clean fun last week with Harvard's Lampoon. Anybody who bought the magazine, they decided, was surely bewitched. So they tried the Lampoon (in absentia?) for witchcraft, hanged it in effigy, burned it atop a pyre of barrels and went home feeling as triumphant as the M.I.T. men of an earlier generation who soldered up Harvard's gates and painted John Harvard's statue a bright...
...born (1860) in a city-bleak South Shields, in Britain, the twelfth child of a family of 14 children. The trail (he seldom used the words "road" or "path") that led him to the woods was long and hard. It led him first to Canada, where his study of nature was hampered by frontier chores, poverty, parental obstruction and poor health. Audubon's bird paintings inspired his drawing...
...forlorn little landing strips like "Crystal 1," at Fort Chimo in northeastern Quebec, and "Crystal 2," on Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. Soldiers of both nations would also staff a ring of weather stations and radar listening posts all across the continent's bleak Arctic vastness and down the east and west coasts to the U.S. The suggestions sounded simple. But the arguments pro & con were complex...
...result of this system of ticket allotment is that at any game which draws a large attendance--and those are the ones he most wants to see--the undergraduate-with-date is relegated to the bleak outlands; and he will continue to get the same treatment unless the seating plan is revised. The H.A.A. could profitably consider the system which is now used by Michigan and a number of other large mid-Western colleges. Students are issued season coupon books rather than assignments to a particular seat. Men desiring single seats to any given game are required to exchange their...
...From the bleak jargon of real estate listings, it was hard to recognize the old place: "A twelve-story brick and limestone hotel building equipped with steam heat (oil burner), hot water . . . two Otis drum elevators . . . three dining rooms, bar and 143 rentable units...