Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book also contains much useful information on how to avoid just such a dismal outcome...
...most gaily matter-of-fact and the most realistically despairing things to say. His three exciting Eclogues (For Christmas, By a Five-Barred Gate, From Iceland) established him among modern-poetry readers as the gleeman-laureate of England's cushy post-World War I civilization and of its dismal decline. And in his shorter lyrics MacNeice had many high-spirited skirmishes with reality...
...Woolworth Co., with its highest sales volume on record ($335,474,820), reported its lowest net income ($24,104,815) since dismal 1932. Besides a $2,400,000 tax increase, the company suffered a $3,317,900 decline in earnings from its British subsidiary...
Almost pure New Dealery, Mr. Comer's visions of a postwar cotton belt were more complicated than idealistic Mr. Clayton's or earthy Mr. Johnston's. But between the three of them, they mapped on cotton's dismal present all its alternatives for years to come...
...that were all Clorinda had had to live for, the picture would be dismal indeed...