Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know Timotheus, with magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
...bell hung in the canopy of the skies." One day he decided that to attempt to reach God through the emptiness of his belly was preposterous. He ate a healthy meal; refused to continue his morti- fications. His disciples left him. For a long while he wandered, alone and gloom-benighted, beleaguering in the darkness of his mind the fortress of eternal knowledge...
...commenting upon current discussions of football at Harvard, the Boston Herald said yesterday in an editorial, that such discussions were possibly a product "of the gloom that has settled along the banks of the Charles." The CRIMSON wishes to correct this false interpretation before making its specific contributions to the discussion. The conclusion of Harvard's football season, and especially the Yale game, has left the banks of the Charles in a condition which is anything but gloomy. Optimism and hope are the dominant notes. It would have been a physical impossibility for a Harvard man who witnessed that last...
...spite of the gloom that these figures threw over the Crimson's chances today, close followers of the sport refused to count the battle already lost. The Cambridge offense has shown increasing signs of power and, strengthened by the confidence gained in the uphill struggle against the Bulldog, the Crimson booters may upset the Pennsylvania invaders plans...
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