Word: dismalness
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...generation later, readers may well be of two minds as to who had the right of the matter - the celebrated bluenose or the historian of "Bluebeard.'' At any rate, those who look to the book for bits of cheerful pornography will be disappointed. Satanism is dismal stuff, and blasphemy meaningless to those who do not believe in the things blasphemed against. In many ways, Author Huysmans own story is more interesting than his book...
...convenience, but nuclear explosives may permit man to do his own large-scale sculpturing. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission announced that in two weeks a party of scientists from the University of California's Radiation Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey will leave San Francisco for the dismal northwest coast of Alaska. Their purpose: to figure whether a harbor can and should be blasted there with nuclear explosives...
...minutes out of Langley, our Super Sabre whooshed over Virginia's Dismal Swamp to the cirrus-dappled air over North Carolina's Chowan River. This area was set aside for acrobatics, cleared of other aircraft. In the Super Sabre, Brett could have wafted into weightlessness by flying high and level, faster than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power...
...then, a dismal fall, a good, winter, and a banner spring. 1957-58 will probably be remembered as the year of the Yale football game, but it was more than that. It was the year that Harvard had the best basketball, baseball, tennis, and lightweight crew teams in a long time. All one can hope for now is that John Yovicsin will be able to develop some kind of pass defense by next November
Part of the reason for the team's comparatively dismal showing lies in the loss of quarter-miler French Anderson, of Eddie Martin in the distances, and of Doc Bennett, a promising pole vaulter. There were also injuries to two-miler Dyke Benjamin and dashman Sandy Dodge, as well as Jim Doty's bother-some skin rash which reduced his effectiveness in the shot...