Word: dismal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus one of the least discussed (in U. S. history textbooks) issues of the War of 1812 was the movement (advocated by Henry Clay and other U. S. fire-eaters) for the annexation of Canada. During the war, however, the U. S. Canadian operations were a dismal failure, relieved chiefly by Perry's famed "We have met the enemy and they are ours" victory on Lake Erie...
...Williams very obviously attempts to cope with these difficulties. It solves the question of representation to some extent by granting a representative to each fraternity, and by making class officers ex officio members. But this makes for a body too large and unwieldy to be effective,--witness the dismal inertia of the portentous Harvard Student Council before the reform...
...Taft once had to come to Mr. Macfadden's aid to spare him two years of hard labor for an article on "Growing to Manhood." But since then the latitude permitted "educational" matter has increased and Mr. Macfadden has doubtless forgotten the $2,000 fine he paid in the dismal dawn of this porno-glorious century...
...sake of a branch of erudition that was considered a vast of energy twenty for the sake of a branch of erudition that vast field of evidence that shows what rapid strides have been made by economics in recent years. It used to be called the dusty dismal science theoretically abstruse aloof from the workaday would. In the present age when the economic is woven with or even dominates the political and social as never before it is a live alert science seeking to deal intimately with the work and the daily bread of the world. The economics courses...
...past and the present do not mingle gracefully. The present is too red-blooded. And so we see a dismal parody of Kipling, a delectable burlesque of Oscar Wilde, and a really amusing, if somewhat overdone, page of history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would...