Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other things being equal" is to the economist what blinders are to a horse--a means of getting somewhere without having to pay attention to the scenery en route. A good many modern economists still wear these blinders. But since Veblen and Keynes economic theory has realized that the dismal science has no more social justification than a cross-word puzzle unless it applies its tools of analysis to actual problems and turns out answers which are not only theoretically sound but useful in the real world...
...immediate and inevitable result of this lack of authority in the Government has been a dismal quarrel between the manufacturers and the C.I.O. This quarrel has exploded because in fact the Government, as represented by the weak voices of Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Hillman and the procurement agencies, was standing by trying to umpire when its duty was to plan and command...
...most to turn the isolationist drive: Texas' little, bald, Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, and Massachusetts' long-toothed John McCormack. No heroes of the antique mold, they were political in-fighters doing a job for Franklin Roosevelt, but they sometimes seemed of heroic size in the dismal months...
...clipped cables, laid mines, sank an estimated 170,000 tons of shipping. The Japanese hoped by the same means to divert U.S. naval strength, to cripple U.S. merchant shipping, to fan U.S. war jitters with repeated, savage submarine attacks on West Coast merchant vessels. The initial Japanese showing was dismal...
...wind which brought the subdued rumble of the city . . . and the whistles of launches returning to the warships passed over the dismal electric bulbs at the ends of blind alleys and lanes; around them crumbling walls emerged from empty darkness, revealed with all their blemishes by that unflinching light from which a sordid eternity seemed to emanate. Hidden by those walls, half a million men: those of the spinning-mills, those who had worked 16 hours a day since childhood, the people of ulcers, of scoliosis, of famine. The globes which protected the electric bulbs became misty...