Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Lindbergh had not been consulted. He was immediately distressed because he feared, along with many another, that the event might prove a parallel to the dismal Dole race across the Pacific from California to Hawaii ten years ago in which six planes were lost (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Upon Lindbergh's protest, Minister Cot limited the race to multi-motored planes with radios and extended the start to any time in August. But protests continued to fulminate in the U. S., not only from such transatlantic experts as Dr. James Henry Kimball of the Weather Bureau, but from...
...young teacher in San Francisco's dismal Tar Flat section named Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) made the kindergarten popular in one of her first tales, The Story of Patsy. When the Atlantic Monthly damned the kindergarten as "a joy saloon," spunky Miss Wiggin flashed: "I like the name. Anyone who has seen, as I have, the dreary tenement rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster...
Last night's abortive riot of the Freshmen in the Yard was a completely dismal failure, and seems to be a good example of the degeneracy which has set in among the younger generation. In past years the clarion call of "Rheinhardt" was enough to set the manly, virile blood of our predecessors in motion, and spur all good Harvard men into action. But times have changed, and past generations of men are being supplanted by a third rate lot of "wee cowering timorous beasties...
...even the most rabid partisan can carp and criticise when the picture of the lower courts is painted dark and dismal. District courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...
What aroused official wailing about the Gorky plant was its dismal slowness of production. Declared the Communist newsorgan Pravda: "In general the conveyor belt is paralyzed five to six hours daily because of defective parts or supply of accessories." To the Gorky plant went a Pravda correspondent to investigate. For some minutes he watched the line of half-finished cars gliding serenely past. Suddenly the line stopped. "What is wrong?" he asked. Replied the foreman, "We have no horn to equip the next machine on the conveyor." After a half-hearted search lasting 30 minutes a worker dawdled up with...