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...season gloom was, however, suddenly dispelled by a highly successful trip South, during the spring recess. The varsity won three of four games played on this tour, and several new men performed with a competence not before suspected of them. When the squad returned to Cambridge, hopes for it had risen so high that even an Eastern League pennant seemed within the bounds of possibility...
...business booms for Sanson and his brother builders, conservative economists gloom over the facts and figures of what seems to promise serious economic trouble. The cost of living has vaulted 365% since 1948, 27% in the past two years. More than 120 billion cruzeiros, each worth four-fifths of a cent at the free-exchange rate, are bursting pocketbooks (v. only 20.5 billion, each worth 5.4?, ten years ago). From a $248 million foreign-trade gain in 1956, Brazil plummeted into a $97 million loss in 1957, a $166 million loss in 1958. Loan interest, loan repayments and massive installments...
...even in these renovated areas, much classification and labelling needs to be done. The casts of the marvelous steles found at Copan are barley visible in the gloom of the end of the third-floor hallway. The public is naturally only mystified by the great casts of which many are unidentified and none is explained by an easily legible descriptive essay...
...damp midday gloom of London's worst fog in seven years, prostitutes were dimly visible as they patrolled their familiar stations in Soho, Piccadilly and Paddington. The chilling smog also seeped through tightly closed windows into the House of Commons, where Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler was opening the second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at clearing those same girls off the sidewalks of London...
...picture is not all gloom, however. The most pleasant surprise this year has been shotputter Henry Abbot, who broke the University record his last time out with a 51 ft., 6 in. heave. "If anyone had predicted that Abbot would break any records at this time last year, we'd have had his head examined," McCurdy commented...