Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student expression in Harvard the existence of too much genteel self-granulation and too little self-examination. The Critic is intended to be critical, but not sensational. It is to deal primarily, although not exclusively, with problems of education. Above all, it is to strive to dispel 'the dismal pall of apathy' which hangs over...
...canvass of manufacturers throughout the United Kingdom revealed everything from smug satisfaction among British steel men last week to dismal gloom in the textile area, where mill owners said that under the new schedules they will have no advantage in competing with Canadian mills. Bitterly textile men recalled that the Mother Country's Chief Delegate at Ottawa was Stanley Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd., famed British steel & iron works. In return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table...
Against this dismal failure in their Five-Year Plan, proud Soviet leaders set last week the success of a Russian...
...till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled on her. And the dreadful point of the story is that by that time Monica was really glad to have...
...lead a movement for cheese paring and grinding the faces of the needy in the interests of the debt collectors. And not a soul in the Labor party has said what ought to be said about the King or about the miserable campaign of unintelligent economy which cast its dismal shadow over the closing months...