Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is laid in the Lake St. John region of New Brunswick, Canada, and depicts graphically the rugged French folk and bleak countryside of that region. The mental struggles of the heroine, Marie, in deciding whether to stay in her native country with her own countrymen and her father, or to go to the glamorous States with her lover form one of the main themes of the story...
Pouncing on the lira accounts in Italy of London banks, including funds of many maiden ladies and widows who find Britain's climate too bleak, II Duce blocked all payments out of these accounts. Simultaneously gold was declared a State monopoly but Italians were not ordered to turn it in. If they would deposit it with one of the State banks they were offered 5% interest on the value of the metal and its "return within one year in gold of the same weight and fineness...
...expedition of less than a dozen took the White Pass and Yukon Railroad up from Skagway to Carcross, 70 miles northeast. This bleak, one-hotel town served as base for the two airplanes by which the area to be mapped was completely photographed. Upon these photographs the overland sledge journey for the actual surveying was planned...
...mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick and Superintendent Collins felt that this was not sufficient. Chosen to paint...
...setting of the concrete Harvard students and aesthetically minded persons the world over have lost their last ally. The termite, with his taste for Sever's wooden undorpinning, gave promise of accomplishing what students have been vainly plotting and threatening since Harvard first saw Sever on a rather bleak day 55 years...