Word: dismalness
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...record, Princeton won the competition by 34 points to claim its fourth consecutive Heps title. But the Crimson's fourth-place showing was more than simply an improvement over last year's dismal performance. It was reason for pride...
...sluggish start and trailed 36-23 at the half. Although Penn outscored Columbia 34-33 in the second half, they were not able to generate enough offense to recover from the slow start. Penn forward Ugonna Onyekwe led the Quakers with 15 points, but Penn shot a dismal 31 percent overall from the field...
Harvard also needs to step it up offensively. The Crimson shot a dismal 33 percent from the field against Yale and shot just 24 percent from behind the arch...
...more like a 1956 Cadillac than any realistic vision of a technological tomorrow that is already with us. Nor can the exactitude of modern science save us from silliness in attempting to know what will happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally wrong as for being excessively gloomy in its visions of Malthusian catastrophe and Kondratieff instability. Weather forecasters, with their satellites, high-altitude balloons and multidimensional computer models, still predict sunny spells just before the deluge, and blizzards just before the thaw...
...first career Ivy loss against Brown. While she did hit a clutch three-pointer in traffic to put the Crimson up one with two minutes left, she struggled with travelling calls and missed the front end of a one-and-one down the stretch. Harvard's dismal 9-of-16 free throw shooting proved to be costly in the 59-57 loss...