Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editor with no hesitant hand draws aside the curtain to reveal such figures as that of the "Dismal Science," surrounded by her ill-fed devotees. The tableau has its lesson...
...Henin took a middle ground, declaring that while private ownership has been a dismal failure, public ownership seems no better. The solution lies in adopting neither, but in enforcing a regime of private ownership under strict governmental regulation...
...most important games. We do not wish to enter into a discussion of whether or not singing is a good thing, but we do wish to point out the very apparent fact that unless something is done very soon, the Harvard singing at the Princeton game will be a dismal failure. If the experience of former years justifies prophecy, several mass meetings will be held in the near future and at these mass meetings a great deal of valuable time will be lost in trying to learn new songs that will never be sung at the game...
...join in singing "something that everybody knew." But it seemed there was almost no song which everybody knew, and after a pathetic rendering of "Oh You Beautiful Doll" and "The Ragtime Violin," somewhat more successful assaults were made on the football songs. It is little wonder that, after a dismal rehearsal of "Fair Harvard," the professor commented sadly upon the inability of Harvard students to sing...