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Word: dismalness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...openers, the Crimson expected to win. Cornell arrived with a 2-6 record, including several dismal performances recently. The stickwomen, who proved against New Hampshire two weeks ago that they could play with anyone, owned a 3-3-1 mark and, after an embarrassing foray to Penn last Saturday, wanted to bounce back with their first...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Stickwomen, Cornell Battle to 1-1 Tie | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

Watching departments dump colleague after colleague can't help but demoralize junior faculty members, despite their foreknowledge that Harvard's assistant/associate-professor road leads nowhere. While departments are generally honest with their junior faculty members about the dismal chances for promotion, it's only natural for scholars to hope that they are the exception--and to be disappointed or even bitter when they...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: A Vague Order of Eminence | 10/10/1980 | See Source »

Martin pointed out that despite the team's seemingly dismal record (to date 1-3-1), morale is still high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quakers Hand Stickwomen 5-2 Defeat | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

That the cadets' encounter with the Crimson merits inclusion in the pantheon of "days" reveals how seriously this campus is taking today's sold-out football game. More than a confrontation between two football teams that seem headed for winning seasons after several dismal years, the game pits the nation's two best-known--and perhaps most different--academic institutions against one another for the first time since...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Gridders March to West Point | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...process worked well the first year because the subcommittees had a plentiful supply of courses proposals to peruse. The second year, the number of ideas fell drastically. And the prospects for this year are dismal. Therefore, the subcommittees now face a "new challenge," as Edward T. Wilcox, secretary to the standing committee, says. They must "go out and attract courses and people who didn't arrive in the natural course of events," he explains...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: The New Challenge | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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