Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the same counter. If some of these functions could be taken care of by the registration envelope method it would do much toward ridding the B. A. A. office of the Beething crowd which at present changes the, application for a ticket from a routine occurrence to a grim and much dreaded experience...
...Wagon and will still be salable long after The Big Trail. Director Raoul Walsh (The Cockeyed World) flaunted its hardships violently and often unforgettably. His emigrants fought the earth, the elements and the Indians vividly for twelve reels. At one point they even lowered their wagon train over a grim precipice on home made tackle...
...present "dumping" price. For the first time since Kings & Emperors played at finance with whole nations which they considered their personal property, a super-monopolistic state has risen able to play this game, eager to try, likely to bungle the colossal gamble. Hyde's Idea. In Moscow grim smiles last week greeted U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde's naïve idea (TIME, Sept. 29) that Dictator Stalin "cannot" throw actual grain into the World market to cover his short sales because right now "the Russians find it necessary to ration their own people...
...every schoolboy who has read the first three novels knows, Authoress Undset's scene is medieval (14th Century) Norway, her people medieval Norse Christians violent in action, grim of conscience. In this instalment old Hero Olav has withered into the sere & yellow, but he is still master in his own house, who can save himself much speech by an occasional frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth...
...first game, the outcome of the second game was decided in the sixth period. Then it was that the Americans, trailing 6?7, climbed on their best mounts with a grim purposefulness and rode hell-for-leather through the Britons, scoring four goals...