Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year are not in the running. While Dartmouth now rides the crest of the wave, the West Point Cadets are scraping rock bottom with no prospects of rising. Four League losses topped by a 9 to 1 shellacking at the hands of the Elis round out a generally dismal season. Wingman Art Snyder lines up as their only real scoring threat, while goalie Gerald Wojciehoski has stood up staunchly in the nets under a hall of flying pucks...
With the end of the war, which halted a wartime full employment in this country, there has come a companion feature, paradoxical in its implications--the idea that the dismal period of the Twenties, roaring boom and tragic bust, will be repeated. Fritz Sternberg not only believes that the future will follow the same cycle, but that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult...
...belieing Johnny Chase's early season prediction that they would be tough to beat, Army has two losses to Dartmouth, one to Yale by a dismal 9 to 1 count, and one to Princeton in eight games played. They have also a loss and tie respectively to Clarkson and Hamilton to add to Coach Len Patten's headaches...
Starting with over 40 new men lodged within the dismal confines of Hemenway Gymnasium less than a week ago, the rapid parting of February's graduates has permitted the absorption of this group into regular quarters in record-breaking time...
...control. And while left-wingers dispute whether the horse in the market place is real or imaginary, the battle beyond the gates goes badly. Reuniting of the splintered Democratic left must await the day when the question of Communists is solved by Soviet-U. S. rapprochement, or the more dismal reality of a break...