Search Details

Word: dismalness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Yale's fortunes have been, the exact opposite of the Crimson's. After a dismal Spring tour in which it lost 10 of its first 12 games. Yale split six games in the EIBL. The Elis waloped Penn, 15-6 and then dumped Columbia twice last weekend, 3-1 and 4-1, Harvard split a doubleheader with Columbia two weeks...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Tom Kidwell Starts Today In League Contest at Yale | 4/24/1970 | See Source »

...written on the history of outlawry in the North Carolina Law Review, argues that the statute should be rescinded before "irreparable injustice occurs which could reflect on the dignity of the laws of North Carolina." The very concept of outlawry-though it is technically a legal procedure-recalls the dismal frontier days of vigilantes and lynch mobs, when angry citizens were allowed to take the law into their own hands and too frequently did. Fortunately for the three North Carolina prisoners, all were peaceably recaptured within three days of the judge's ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Outlaws of 1970 | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Millionaire Kirk Kerkorian, bought the Flamingo and built the 1,519-bedroom International Hotel. Earnings more than doubled last year to $6.5 million, but the company's stock plummeted from a 1969 high of 64 to last week's 13¾.* Dragged down in part by the dismal image shared by many casino-owning companies, it also had troubles with the SEC. Last year International Leisure needed audited financial statements going back to 1964 for a proposed stock offering. Company officers said that they could not supply the figures because the Flamingo's previous owners had refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Run of Bad Luck in Gambling Stocks | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

Last year was a dismal one for the Crimson, which lost a discouraging game to the Quakers and went on to finish next to last in the league...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Stickmen Seek Third Win In Ivy Opener With Penn | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...subtle, nor are they meant to be. Among the most skilled is Charles Milles' mural painted on a handball wall in Orchard Park, in the primarily black Roxbury neighborhood. It proudly depicts black aspirations in dance, theater and music-and brings a spot of color to an otherwise dismal plavground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Object: Diversity | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

Previous | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | 355 | 356 | 357 | 358 | 359 | 360 | 361 | 362 | 363 | 364 | 365 | 366 | 367 | 368 | 369 | 370 | 371 | Next