Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politician-an idealist and a dismal campaigner. But he burned to help the common man. He was thrice elected Republican Governor of New Hampshire, but when Franklin Roosevelt began the New Deal, Winant disregarded G.O.P. disapproval to back...
American Woolen Co., which earned $21.86 a common share last year on a stock which sold at only $33 last January, slumped 31% during the first nine months of this year to $11,257,600. Railroads were still having their troubles. And aircraft companies, as expected, were in dismal shape. Douglas Aircraft, which usually manages to show a profit, has lost $1,170,037 so far this year...
...Wednesday was dismal for travelers and travel services alike. The train for the Folkestone-Boulogne service had only 59 passengers (the day before there had been 404); the Dover-Calais train left with 133 passengers compared with 377 the day before. The same day, the British European Airways Corp. announced that it would have to cut its Continental services and sack one-third of its staff...
Little Enthusiasm. One wartime U.S. visitor was impressed by the prevalence of sexy books in Karachi. "In one dismal hotel," he recalled, "the hall porter was reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
Crimson Coach Barnaby attributes this dismal situation to uncontrollable conditions rather than to any inherent weakness in his team. Weather, for instance, has held the squad back all year, cancelling three matches and forcing innumerable practices off the courts or onto the tricky surfaces of the Indoor Athletic Building basketball floor...