Word: bleakness
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...another bellower cupped his hands, vociferated: "Long cheer for Pound!" A tense arm ticked off three hips; through the bleak air, refracted by the wall of Langdell Hall, came from 700 leather throats a stupendous roar?Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, with nine POUNDS on the end. The Dean did not appear. Reluctantly, in little groups, the 700 went away...
...Long Island, its bleak, brown countryside frozen stiff and hard by the hoary winds of December, never looked more woebegone and distant that it did today. . . . An old manor house, the property of one of the first governors of New York state, situated on the top of a little knoll at Plandome, is the residence of a half-brother of our wife, Martin Littleton, the well-known criminal attorney...
Cornell treated Penn's unbeaten team to a bleak first period. Long punts and off-tackle thrusts kept the Big Red team on an offensive that wilted only before its own fumbles. Then Penn uncorked her air game and three touchdowns whistled over. The final whistle ended Penn's first unbeaten season since 1908. Score: Penn 20, Cornell...
...Canadian Pacific train, a man was killed by a bomb in- tended for him-a man who, in the passionate belief of many Russians, was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Peter Veregin was head of the Russian sect known as Doukhobors. Wherever he went in his country, over bleak steppes, through frozen streets, peasants and quality lifted up their hands to him, or left their homes to follow (unfed but by their own harsh ecstacy) the passage of his footsteps through the winter of the land. Such a one does not go without enemies, though by what agency the plot...
...cage. The mouse blinks, surprised, into the glow. A switch is turned. Terrible energy flies along the beam. The mouse jumps into the air, quivers, is dead. So, in the future, Prof. Grindell-film such prophetic visions-the death ray will sweep whole armies into oblivion, whole cities into bleak, smoldering ruins, explode bombs in midair, blow up ammunition dumps from great distances; in a word, make existence for those who do not possess its mysterious secret impossible, and, so he says...