Word: dismalness
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...preserved specimens of prehistoric fish and a few birds. No dinosaurs, though. While the rocks date back some 110 million years, smack in the middle of the terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part of its legs, looked as if it belonged to a bird, and that's what Todesco assumed...
Ultimately, there is no real way around the pain of staying at school for vacation. As Matthew F. Lawson '00, a Lowell House resident who spent most of last week rowing, points out, "Being at Harvard over spring break was, at best, a dismal experience." But Harvard could make that experience a little less dismal by providing the bare essentials for students who must or who choose to stay in Cambridge instead of flying to Cancun...
Many professors and graduate students say thatdespite the job market, which the MLA report calls"dismal," humanities scholars are needed insociety...
...evidence is pretty unambiguous: there are problems retaining and recruiting [junior faculty members]," Masten said. "Everyone knows the track record for tenure-from-within is dismal, almost non-existent," he said...
...other side, however, was the dismal prospect of returning to a barren Bright Hockey Center--a not so unrealistic thought considering the abysmal attendance figures this season...