Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacuum tanks. As patents expired and vacuum tanks gave way to fuel pumps, the name Stewart-Warner began to mean radios, refrigerators and cinema equipment. Depression stifled the market for these new products no less than for automobile accessories. By last year the outlook for Stewart-Warner was dismal indeed. Last week the company published its annual report for 1933 revealing a thoroughgoing house cleaning from products to personnel. While Stewart-Warner was slowly slipping, one of its subsidiaries, which is better known under its own name, continued to pile up profits. Alemite Corp. now makes lubricating systems...
...speak of your labor problems again, Cambridge; don't mention unemployment after the dismal swamps your ditch-ways have been this last week. The only men working appeared to be the step-fathers of local firemen, or past grand commanders of the Elks Lodge. If there were jobs for twenty, Cambridge found one--but he had to have a son-in-law in the county jail or the mayor's office...
...most important issue is to prevail upon him [man] to discard his dismal attire of bygone days and dress him for the New Deal...
...recent report; but you have in some aspects missed the point in your appreciation of what the President intends to do. President Conant has masterfully combined the ideals of former President Lowell with those of so-called Progressive Education, and by so doing he has saved Harvard from the dismal abyss of mediocrity into which it might have fallen. He is about to inaugurate at Harvard a policy which will eventually distinguish it from its neighbors, and he is at least courageous enough to imply that those who do not possess the talent, or are not in sympathy with...
...London papers are usually full of interesting and mysterious appeals, appointments and code messages. In the U. S. they are taken up almost exclusively by statements from husbands who will no longer be responsible for their wives' debts, eccentric job-hunters, Mexican divorce lawyers and, in Manhattan, the dismal efforts of one Hiram Mann to get himself elected to Congress on a platform of back pay for Brooklyn Navy Yard workers...