Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then your never know about freshman rowers," Love remarked hastily. "For instance, last year's freshmen had a dismal start, improved gradually during the season, and beat Yale in the last meet...
...last five years, Principal Harrell has been worrying a good deal about things like that. A twangy, kindly man of 56, raised on a Texas farm, he has become a sort of patriarch to the people living in some of the more dismal patches of West Dallas. Statistics tell part of the West Dallas problem. Spread out along the bottom lands of the Trinity River, it is a dreary settlement of native whites, Negroes and Mexicans jammed into row upon row of one-and two-room shacks -some 25,000 people-mostly without plumbing of any kind. In West Dallas...
...Dismal schmisal. A lot of people who came down to Lincoln Downs Saturday for opening day said I threw the eigth race. Hell's bells, I almost threw my lunch...
...Americans will be prepared to accept Expatriate Eliot's dismal conclusions in which the sole ray of light is the grudging admission that Britain (which in Eliot's opinion is rapidly forgetting Christianity) may yet re-create a degree of culture by adopting "some inferior or materialistic religion...
Donald Oenslager's single set, the dismal orderly room, is so startlingly realistic that anyone who had experiences roughly like those shown in the play can't help remembering that they weren't so very funny when they really happened. Nevertheless, the final test of a comedy is the audience reaction. At the Wilbur, they were rolling in the aisles...