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While the bridal couple exchange wreaths, another girl recites a doleful lay: "Never has a nation struggled so bitterly. We die, we starve, we stand. . . . Straight ahead we look ... we do our bitter duty." Then rings are exchanged to the tune of Beethoven's I Love Thee. But there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nazi Marriage Service | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

The advantages of a Harvard education were becoming doubtful yesterday as the doleful announcement was made that Wellesley will not reopen until March 3. Life in Cambridge has not been the same this winter with the Wabanettes gone, and the dreary Radcliffe-and-WAVE-bound existence will now be extended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lover Come Back to Me, Or No Wellesley Till March 3 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

The loss of Lyle was the crowning blow of a doleful weekend for the Harlow forces, and it is a battered Crimson eleven which prepares for the onslaughts of a Brown Bear out of hibernation.

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Harlowmen Lose Lyle For Rest of Campaign | 11/10/1942 | See Source »

New York City parents flapped their newspapers in surprise at big advertisements in which a little girl was shown clinging to her mother's apron and crying : "Mama, I hate to go to school today. It's my turn to stand!" What this doleful picture actually reflected was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tchk, Tchk! | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

But behind them lay the dramatic beginning of the Willkie campaign- the first talks to the silent, enigmatic workmen in the Chicago stockyards, the tension and half-exasperated dismay as Wendell Willkie lost his voice in his first overaggressive campaigning, the doleful predictions that the campaign would be the greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Road Back | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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