Word: depressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the purpose of the stage is not solely to entertain, it is also not to depress, embarrass, or mystify, as so many of the extremely outre productions of local theater groups have done. The Veterans Theater Workshop last week went through the motions of a play that was not only nebulous and long, but literally a poor piece of writing. The Harvard Dramatic Club, running in a flying wedge behind a superbly ingenious press-agent, managed to fill the house for a production whose only scintillating features were its novelty and its fig-leaf...
This development did not seem to depress the delegates in the least-even though their governments had spent $250,000 to give the college a global air. Hunter was not really big enough. Already, Secretary General Trygve Lie had a line on a likely spot for U.N.'s next visit-the spacious, glass-bricked, $18 million Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success, Long Island...
...kind. I will be 60 next year. I don't think I have the qualifications. This is the time when young people must plan for the future . . . they've got to live it." Suggested a reporter: "But your gloomy view of being 60 is going to depress a great many people." Retorted the First Lady:. "Oh, I adore being...
...prospect of being a teacher forever began to depress him. He got out. He had been dreaming up ballads in his ample spare time, and for a while he sang them over Shreveport's station KWKH. In the late '30s Decca made a record of his It Makes No Difference Now, made another with Bing Crosby doing the singing, and Davis was in demand. Since then his records have sold more than a million copies, and Davis has acquired 450 acres of farmland. He calls the farming his insurance. "When a man's in the business...
Whatever it did to other people, this news last week did not depress U.S. biochemists. Their researches had discovered many substitutes for meat, some of them only a little less tasty than beefsteak and fully as rich in protein. (The Harvardmen found that only" a tenth of an individual's minimum daily protein requirement need be animal protein, i.e., meat, eggs, milk...