Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipyard of John Brown & Co., Ltd. Behind them they left the largest ship's hull that man has ever riveted together - Britannia's unfinished bid to rule the Atlantic mercantile wave again. As a handful of watchmen took up their duties under the deserted hulk, deepest gloom settled over Clydebank. Less than 30% of all Clyde shipworkers remained at work...
...example of a man upon whom the land has made a profound impression. No one who has visited the Wessex country can fall to feel the gloom and sadness that clings to the moorland. All of his novels reflect this sombre tone, and in one the moor itself assumes a vigorous personality, becomes a definite character. Today Mr. Hersey will talk in Emerson 211 at 2 o'clock upon the Hardy Country. He has taken many new pictures during the last summer which will enlighten the provincial and refresh the memory of the cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift...
According to all statements, from that of the coach to that of members of the college, nothing but gloom has pervaded the football atmosphere in the New Hampshire hills. However the Big Green has only to exact a tie out of the Crimson today in order to leave themselves still in a 5 to 4 lead in the post-war series of the two colleges. On the whole string of games Harvard has won 18 as against its rival's seven, but until the resumption of football relations after the war the New Hampshire players had only vanquished the Cambridge...
...first time in my life," she cried, "I saw the Atlantic Fleet given a silent reception at Plymouth! . . . But our gloom soon turned to hope when we got in touch with the men of the lower deck. I spent three days going among them, and never once came across a sailor who realized the consequences of his action. ... It is hard for anybody who does not know the British sailor to realize the simplicity of his point of view, but I assure my friends in America and elsewhere that the British Navy is as safe and sound as ever...
...early last week and headed southwest into a grey squall. At their head was the new cruiser Chester flying the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral George Ralph Marvell. Aboard the 27 ships of the Navy's scouting force were 5,000 officers and men. Also aboard was gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk...