Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow brick, old-fashioned but scrupulously clean building in West Philadelphia. From the rumbling presses in its basement pours a stream of weighty periodicals: Journal of Morphology, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, five others. These make dismal and mostly incomprehensible reading for laymen, but publication is the lifeblood of science and the specialists who read the Wistar publications understand and appreciate them...
...Grandpa Kramer, a recluse, had not spoken to anybody for years, but Heidi soon made a playmate of him. It was terrible when Aunt Dete stole her one day, took her to Frankfurt to live in rich Herr Sesemann's house. After the snow and goats it was dismal doing lessons with invalid Klara Sesemann. (Marcia Mae Jones). Klara's mean governess, pointing her starchy cap at Sesemann, wanted Klara to stay sick, but Heidi's Christmas present to Herr Sesemann was the sight of Klara walking. The climax of the story concerns the somewhat frenzied efforts...
...Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like a white man." By the time...
...crimson jerseys were issued yesterday and combined with a cold drizzle to remind the Varsity squad that the balmy days of pre-season workouts are now a thing of the past. The New England football and dismal weather season is now in full swing...
...violinist (Rubinoff) let her sing for her supper. That is enough to convince Diner George Macrae (Don Ameche), a successful musical comedy librettist, that Judith is wasting her time as a playwright. Although this impression is confirmed when Macrae and Producer Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger) read her dismal drama, North Winds, in which the principal characters all freeze to death, they take an option on it as a means of persuading Judith to sing in their forthcoming show. When both rehearsals and romance are upset by jealous Lulu Riley (Miss Hovick), Macrae gets everything running smoothly again by the miraculous...