Word: bleakness
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...both the U. S. junior singles (outdoors) and men's singles (indoors). U.S. L. T. A. officials were therefore watching eagerly last week when 88 very young men started play in the U. S. indoor junior championship tournament on the smooth board floor of Manhattan's big, bleak Seventh Regiment Armory...
...daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited. Early messages from the President Hoover's Captain George W. Yardley minimized the disaster but by last week, after six grim days of escape and rescue, the first group of passengers landed in Manila. What they had to say added up to one more shocking charge...
...Moscow correspondent Gene was as sure as his TASS colleagues that what he would send from Russia to be read daily by 30,000,000 U. S. readers would be angled "for the cause." He, his pretty wife Billy and daughter Eugenie arrived in Moscow in the bleak winter...
...with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally U. A. L. announced that its plane had been sighted, smashed near a saddle of Chalk Mountain in the bleak Uinta Range. When searchers next day reached it by pack horse and foot, they found 16 passengers, two pilots and a stewardess dead in the snow-covered wreckage-worst airplane accident in U. S. history...
Sounding Board for Premier Hepburn is a new and potent force in Canadian journalism, launched with the money of bleak, eccentric William Henry Wright, onetime butcher, soldier and prospector, today credited with having Canada's largest annual income ($6,000,000). This comes from the famed Wright-Hargreaves Mine, largely developed by Old Prospector Wright, who lives 90 miles north of Toronto in the small town of Barrie...