Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were fireworks in Worcester last night as the Harvard women's swim team opened its 1979-80 campaign by torpedoing a dismal Clark squad...
Last week, like proud parents of a sickly child who suddenly won the bantam championship, AMC announced that profits more than doubled, to a record $83.9 million on sales of $3.1 billion for the fiscal year ended in September. True, earnings declined in the industry's dismal last quarter, but they were down less than those at the Big Three. In October, AMC rode up again: car sales surged 37%, while they sank 21% for the industry as a whole...
...ruined Yale's bid for an undefeated season and turned an otherwise dismal 1979 Harvard campaign into a bacchanalian celebration. More than 72,000 fans--the largest Bowl crowd since 1954--streamed onto the field here two seconds before the final gun, mobbing the Harvard players and wreaking havoc in otherwise boring New Haven...
Regarding student practice of the creative arts at Harvard, the less said the better. Apart from the very competent student orchestras who provide an audible museum of long-dead and mostly romantic composers, the picture is dismal. I attended a number of undergraduate theatricals and they were all terrible. The Lampoon and the Advocate are significantly worse than even most English university papers (and they are pretty bad!). Journalism on the other hand, which requires a mentality antithetical to that of the creative artist, flourishes. The Carpenter Center has made a noble attempt to get the visual arts...
...Harvard's second-and third-line players finished out the win in comfortable style. THE NOTEBOOK: After the game, Restic and Crimson captain Mike Brown presented the game ball to Penn coach Harry Gamble, in honor of his team's spirited fight down to the wire despite its dismal record and huge deficit...