Word: dismally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American Medical Association. Editor Fishbein has a wit which he likes to sharpen at the expense of quacks and of others who displease him. Only attempt at humor in the whole spate of U. S. medical journals is the collection of stale, smutty jokes which have trailed with dismal repetition through the Journal's "Tonics and Sedatives" column for the past 20 years...
...faith in Santa went into serious decline. In fact, speaking seriously, Santa, nothing ever went into Vag's ashean quite so completely before or since. Except the stork. For a while, Father, like an old silly, kept dressing up like you every Christmas. But it was a pretty dismal flop--and he gave...
Playing a scrappy brand of hockey all during the game, the surprising Crimson confounded the many critics who had prophesied a dismal winter for Coach Clark Hodder...
Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...
Harvard's outlook is far from dismal. Having lost only two early season games in what was decidedly a tough schedule, the Yardlings really hit their stride last Saturday in a 3 to 1 win over Brown. Then to top that off, they beat the Varsity 5 to 3 in their last scrimmage. The only disheartening feature is the fact that Jack Calhoun, the captain, and Bill Mayer are both troubled with leg injuries which may curtail their playing efficiency...