Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker set a University record in the two-mile but the rest of the Crimson track team made a dismal showing in Saturday's Knights of Columbus Games in Boston Garden...
...mishap hit the headlines back home, all Italy chuckled. Fanfani had hardly smoothed down his dignity and limped away when the next blow came. He found himself involved in a Hanoi "peace feeler" to the U.S. that turned out to be a dismal flop. Of course, he felt he was only doing his duty-that it was the responsibility of any statesman to pass along to the President of the U.S. the slightest intimation of an end to the bloody Viet Nam war. The folks back home, however, were less impressed than amused at this "amateur peacemaking." Particularly since Fanfani...
...Crimson's performance during the first half was dismal. John Scott tallied Harvard's only three field goals during the first seven minutes of play. M.I.T. started slowly too, but gradually built up a 40-32 lead at halftime...
...recent successes of Keynes's theories have given a new stature and luster to the men who practice what Carlyle called '.'the dismal science." Economists have descended in force from their ivory towers and now sit confidently at the elbow of almost every important leader in Government and business, where they are increasingly called upon to forecast, plan and decide. In Washington the ideas of Keynes have been carried into the White House by such activist economists as Gardner Ackley, Arthur Okun, Otto Eckstein (all members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers), Walter Heller (its former chairman), M.I.T...
...Warren Center, far from improving undergraduate education, may indeed only weaken the already short-handed staff in American history. The provisions for the use of the bequests do not improve the dismal tenure prospects confronting the junior faculty; the History Department can only expect to go losing its best men before their terms expire. And the possibility of full professors' spending less of their time teaching is even more alarming to those of us who care how American history is taught...