Word: bleakly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
GOLGOTHA, Apr. 9, A.D. 30.-This bleak suburb of Jerusalem, scene of the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth last Friday, became the center of excited interest today. . . . Hordes of spectators, many of whom were present at the death of him who claimed to be the Jews' Messiah, roved curiously over Calvary Hill. They had come to view the wreckage left by the disastrous earthquakethat accompanied the prophet's last hours...
...Japan won the half of the island which lies south of latitude 50° north. Ever since, Japan and Russia have squabbled (but never actually fought) over its oil, coal and fish. Each now wants the whole place. A full-fledged war could scarcely develop on bleak Sakhalin-last week's clash was followed by a blizzard which stopped railroad trains, to say nothing of troops on foot-but it looked at week's end as if Sakhalin clashes and Nomonhan scares would keep Russia and Japan from joining hands in what the Allies fear-exclusive enemy domination...
...Garfield knows exactly how to play the part of an arrogant young tough. Ann Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime he didn't commit...
...Skeels's discovery was one of a series made more or less by chance during the last 15 years by the University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. The Station found that when children attended a nursery school or were transferred from a bleak orphanage to a good home, their I.Q.s invariably improved. Concluded the Station's director, Dr. George Dinsmore Stoddard: with good upbringing even a dull child may become bright...
...when he worked with them in the fields, helped round up the pigs. For five years he stirred from the farm no more than the Marvins did, sketched them ploughing, foxhunting, planting potatoes, sharpening a scythe, clustered round their old iron kitchen range. The paintings that resulted are strong, bleak, solid as the Jersey hills...