Word: bleakness
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...four million young people who are "out of school, out of work," democracy has had very little meaning. To the sixteen million others of similar age, in schools, on farms, or employed in bare-subsistence jobs, prospects for living seem hardly less bleak. Yet it is upon these young people that America must depend for its defense--in war and in peace alike...
...grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
From Morocco onetime Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel last week flew to Vichy to surrender. He was clapped into bleak Château Chazeron with his fellow scapegoats, onetime Premiers Paul Reynaud and Edouard Daladier, former Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin. Cagey little sword-nosed Mandel for years kept a dossier on the misdemeanors of all high personages in France, and the Riom War Guilt Court would like to have this even more than his person...
Signing the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act which will put investment trusts and counselors under SEC supervision, Candidate Roosevelt called the bill to witness "this Administration's vigorous program . . . to protect the investor." Sure that "we have come a long way from the bleak days of 1929." the President voiced a pious hope: "It is a source of satisfaction that businessmen have at last come to recognize that it is this Administration's purpose to aid the honest businessman...
...site was Little Pea Island, a bleak cluster of rocks about 150 ft. square, a mile off the shore of Westchester County. According to CBS calculations, it is the finest spot around New York City for radio transmission. Now leveling the island off, CBS engineers intend to surround it with a 16 ½ ft. sea wall, anchor a 410-ft. transmitter upon it in 39 ft. of concrete. Housed in a control building 75 ft. square will be all the equipment needed for transmission. Two telephone lines will be laid on the bottom of the Sound to carry programs from...