Word: dismal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dismal day. Even the sun balks at smiling on this puppets' college with its box dormitories set up about its crazy-quilt campus, and its infant incubators down by the river. There is symbolism in those twin chimneys of the capitalist power plant. Some day they will fall through the feeding troughs of Smith Halls as through egg-powder, and with them this whole idea-starved society will come crashing to the ground...
...great German public was concerned, the first domestic gold loan (of $50,000,000) raised by Germany since the war was a dismal failure. Only $12,500,000 (approximate) was subscribed. The banks, however, guaranteed the loan up to $25,000,000, and so will be obliged to find about $12,500,000 more. Thus half the loan is assured. It is understood that the Reichsbank will list the balance of the loan on the bourses, and it is hoped that a good part of it will be taken...
...clock--"Dismal Science" by Professor A. E. Monroe, Harvard 6. (Economics...
...anything were needed to refute those occasional critics of the Harvard Glee Club who complain that by going in for first-class music the Club is killing the old college songs, the "Harvard Song Book" would do the trick. Certain graduates have written dismal letters to the "Alumni Bulletin" during the past two or three years, conveying an impression that always until now it has been a major sport for undergraduates to gather in compact groups about a piano of an evening and split the air with "Giniral Grant", but that the Glee Club is spoiling all this...
...commit itself definitely and there would be an end to the excuses of "not knowing the candidates." If on the other and the decision was to have no Sophomore or Junior officers, the cloud of criticism about "lack of spirit" and "indifference" would disappear. In either case, this miserable, dismal farce of the annual middle class elections would be stopped...