Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Playing out the string" (as the same sports writer would call it) is always rather dismal business. This weekend should be even worse since the team will be playing at Yale the same night as the swim meet. And since Yale has clinched a tie for the title, and will be playing its final home game, it will probably go for blood...
Pushing ahead with his campaign to humanize Britain's dismal prisons, Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler announced his newest device for rehabilitating gaolbirds: a $280 prize for the best original literary, artistic or musical composition produced behind bars. Unmentioned, at his own request, was the instigator and donor of the award: Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler, 56. whose Dialogue with Death and Scum of the Earth grew out of his own imprisonment by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War and by Vichy France during World...
...Mississippi, only one Negro campus (Tougaloo Southern Christian) is accredited, and the dismal state of Jackson's J. P. Campbell College sums up the problem. Campbell's shabby plant is no match for the average Northern high school. For its 300 mostly country-raised students, Campbell boasts a library of 3,000 books. It operates on a budget of $131,000, about half provided by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. For the rest, says President Robert M. Stevens, "we just have to do a lot of hustlin'." Now gifts are vanishing. Campbell is solidly behind civil rights...
...life. His attack is similar to that levelled by these, and numerical men. It is an outcry against the world with its mad race for material and improvement; with its growing callousness among men caught in the machinery of personal economic forces. Throughout the world, he finds a dismal tedium, a loss of purpose and enjoyment. This is nothing new, nor is the irony that man's great material progress as a solution to his difficulties is only an illusion, leading man still deeper into the prison of his own devices...
...Yale Spoke and Wheel Society and the Harvard satisfactory site for the race. They could not convince Cambridge authorities to let them use the Yard or the Common, and they had to settle for a piece of lawn near the field house. As a result, the race was a dismal failure. In fact, only 50 people were able to locate...