Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a blessing. But it need not be such a bore. Staged with style, spoofed with an air, its nose-tweaking of warriors and ear-pulling of the girls they left behind them could be pretty good fun. Instead, the current production has all the horsing, hamming and dismal vivacity of what is known as a routine revival...
...story is accompanied by much searching of the upper ether where those heroic German ancestors, Goethe and Mozart, presumably dwell, and the Steppenwolf's dismal adventures evoke their cold immortal laughter...
...psychological worst, eyes glazed, fingers aching, brain whirling; and the idea is thus prevalent that he is some sort of evil genius who emerges from under the eaves only at such moments, expressly to interfere with their trains of thought. Actually he has interests which extend well beyond the dismal confines of Memorial and New Lecture Halls and Emerson D. He cuts quite a figure locally at the Cambridge Skating Club. But whenever his inquistional activities give him enough time off, he hurries north to his farm on the shores of Lake Winnesquam in New Hampshire to look after...
...secret that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. had lost money in 1946. The only question was: How much? Last week the Pennsy gave out the dismal figure: $8.5 million (v. a net profit of $49 million in 1945). Never before in its 100-year history had the biggest U.S. railroad gone into...
...fall, the Varsity wrestling team proceeded to take points in five of the next six bouts to beat a scrappy Dartmouth squad, 16 to 14, last night at the Indoor Athletic Building and thereby became the only Varsity to scalp an Indian team on an otherwise dismal day for the Crimson. Both teams used Freshmen by a pre-match agreement...