Word: gloomier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard defeat further darkened the hockey outlook here which has grown gradually gloomier as the season has progressed. A lot had been expected of the present outfit which had retained most of its stars from last year's great squad whose only defeat was administered by McGill. Now observers are beginning to question the squad's potentialities...
...tonight. The supply of snow around Boston which was heavily crusted last week may be covered with the same blanket of snow that skiers are waiting for up North. However, there is a chance that showers will make the prospects in the Southern part of New England gloomier. The temperature throughout the New England States will drop slightly, but will remain around the twenties during the nights. More snow will fall next week in the northern states, providing better skiing for next week...
...Leftists control of two of these lines, tremendous advantage should France make good her repeated threat to open the frontier for volunteers and munitions, but it would also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football with their adversaries between the lines have been...
Gloomiest U. S. repository for incurable criminals and generally considered the hardest to escape from is currently the Federal Government's Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Last week, Pennsylvania announced plans for an unique State prison which, even gloomier than Alcatraz, should be at least as inescapable...
...least be attempted before the next harvest period. Never has assistance to the farmer been so vital to the welfare of the whole nation as at the present time. With returning industrial activity and the mid-winter flood disasters combining to make many a farmer's prospect seem proportionately gloomier than that of his countrymen, some measure is inevitable, and the one suggested by the President appears logical and sound...