Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little over a month ago, the Freshman and Junior Varsity baseball teams started off their schedules with a tie. The Jayvees got' progressively better. The Freshmen didn't, and Saturday's Yale finales provided a fitting ending for what was a successful season for the Jayvees, a more dismal year for the Yardlings. The Jayvees won 16 to 8, the Freshmen lost...
...speech took Bishop Oxnam, standing short and solid on the stage of huge, dismal Mechanics Building, two hours to read. He reviewed Methodist gains since the General Conference of 1944 ($27,011,243 raised for world relief and reconstruction; a record one-year gain of 1,063,734 new members). He restated the traditional Methodist stand against "the liquor traffic" and its "advertisements that seek to associate whiskey with success rather than with the gutter." He deplored the growing tendency of Methodist-founded universities and other institutions to break away from their church affiliation. Then he came to the main...
...itinerant Methodist preacher, John Ransom was born and raised in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar). After a dismal year as a prep-school Latin teacher, he taught English at Vanderbilt (with time out for World War I) for 23 years. Until the Fugitives woke him from his "dogmatic slumber," Ransom was a conventional teacher who took few pains to inspire his students. The bumptious crop of younger Fugitives stimulated him both as poet and teacher. Ransom, say his admirers in the Sewanee Review, did not try to dominate; he attained more enduring effects...
M.I.T.'s lacrosse forces have had a dismal season so far, not the least depressing part of which was their 21-2 loss to Dartmouth. But the Techmen have always had a hidden desire to push their Cambridge cousins even further up the Charles River than Harvard Square. Last year they extended the Crimson by collecting six goals, and in '46 dropped a squeaker...
...itching ... head, lots of white dry dandruff . . . must read about it in the Encyclopedia . . . Smoking too much makes me nervous . . . Arose at 9 o'clock ... I think freckles ... are due to some salt of iron [in] low state of oxidation ... A little dog . . . just came [in], face as dismal as a bust of Dante . . . dinner at 3 p.m. ... I eat too quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know why ... I must read Jane Eyre . . . Played a little on the piano . . . badly out of tune . . . Sardines [for supper] . . . could scarcely swallow them . . . This is Sunday...