Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...
Last week it seemed that Franklin Roosevelt's estimate would have to be revised- upward. For a searching report on Consumer Incomes in the U. S. by the National Resources Committee demonstrated that nearly one-half of the nation fitted the President's dismal description...
...week had a simple explanation for Georgism's revival: its simplicity. So simple that the school claims the man-in-the-street can be trained to teach it, Henry George's doctrine, according to Mr. Chodorov, sweeps aside the "academic gibberish" with which orthodox practitioners of the "dismal" science of economics clothe their confusion. Director Chodorov also claimed that the Henry George School is free from propaganda: "We don't make the students swallow anything they don't like and we don't mind arguments." Enrolled in the school are Communists, Republicans and in-between...
Sirs : LIFE, in its issue of May 16, carries an advertisement of TIME, which tells of the editors, writers, researchers and correspondents of the new Radio Department, who have for three months been exploring the field. They are described as having gathered news "from London, where television has failed dismally." Some member of your team has surely betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could...
...only a limited sale, making less from Paul Jones because it had too small a profit margin for big earnings despite its sales of some 2,000,000,000 in 1932. Rube eyed the 15? field dominated by Camels, Lucky Strikes, Chesterfields, Old Golds. He had already tried, with dismal failure, to crack this field with a 15-center named Unis. His second try was Philip Morris English Blend. Launched in January 1933, it was an immediate...