Word: glooming
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...amazed staff nearly stopped work on the first edition. This notice that one of the most eminent, though least-known, careers in U. S. journalism had ended brought gloom to the office in which Oliver Kirby Bovard had spent 40 of his 66 years. For 28 of those years he had been managing editor, respected, feared, idolized by newspapermen whose bylines he made famous...
...blue-book gloom and the lecture-hall mold was scattered to the four winds, when instead of hearing the liturgical voice, entoning "gentlemen, you have five more minutes." they saw drum majorettes tripping down the pavement with a stately following...
...story of the rise and fall of the Trilobites is made more poignant when it is considered that in Cambrian time they were the most intelligent and promising. Probably insects arose from the earliest Trilobites. I mention this to relieve the gloom of the rise and fall of this group of animals...
Slightly offsetting this gloom, some economists pointed to one sign that Recovery II might be just around the corner: Housing, white hope of 1938. at long last seemed to be bestirring itself. In May, home building east of the Rockies, as shown last week by the F. W. Dodge reports, topped both April and March levels. Though this could logically be laid to the weather, it was noteworthy that engineering contracts of $45,250,000 were 27% above the same week of 1937, shoving the 1938 total to date 7% ahead of last year...
...growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above supported by gigantic, perfectly shaped pillars, widely spaced so that one could see far back into the endless gloom. Occasionally sharply defined sunbeams would filter down to the bare forest floor, but neither they nor the few mountain birds whose liquid piping echoed round about could disturb the sepulchral peace. There was also a sepulchral chill...