Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved into Gray's Hall and that he became a friendless and lonely student. He envied the other fellows whose friends were always yelling up at their rooms and (so the story went) he took to standing below his own window and singing out his own name in a sad pretence that he was popular too. Other students took up the oft reiterated call, shouted it back and forth, and finally it became a byword for Harvard men--like the "Hello Bill" of the Elks, but more high-toned...
Annoyance only gives way to down-right exasperation when the whole sad story of mismanagement at last is brought to light. It was had enough to and two weeks ago that the Comptroller had at his disposal information, the prompt release of which after the appearance of the first newspaper story would have so vindicated Harvard's reputation as to obviate all further discussion. But yesterday at a hearing before the Rules Committee of the Massachusetts legislature the treasurer of the Corporation made known the strange news that in March 1928 the Comptroller was in a position to establish...
With all the latest psychological concepts at his finger tips, the Vagabond has given considerable thought to the sad case of Mr. McKee. The first solution that came to mind was that the patient had been a victim of misfortune in his family life, and had himself been subjected to some of the harrowing experiences with his drunken and feeble-minded offspring which so afflicted the patient fathers and mothers of his illustratfons...
Supper was a sad, silent meal one evening last week aboard the ice-locked fur-ship Nanuk off the northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were...