Word: bleaknesses
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...expedition of less than a dozen took the White Pass and Yukon Railroad up from Skagway to Carcross, 70 miles northeast. This bleak, one-hotel town served as base for the two airplanes by which the area to be mapped was completely photographed. Upon these photographs the overland sledge journey for the actual surveying was planned...
...mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick and Superintendent Collins felt that this was not sufficient. Chosen to paint...
...setting of the concrete Harvard students and aesthetically minded persons the world over have lost their last ally. The termite, with his taste for Sever's wooden undorpinning, gave promise of accomplishing what students have been vainly plotting and threatening since Harvard first saw Sever on a rather bleak day 55 years...
...Once a bleak, barren island, Midway has been a cable relay station for Commercial Pacific Cable Co. for 32 years. The cable colony comprises 23 men including the resident superintendent who also serves as naval custodian, a resident physician, five Chinese, seven Japanese. The Pan American men bring the total population to 57. Advance crews from the North Haven moved in 2,000 tons of material-160,000 separate items. On a broad clearing they erected seven buildings including a power plant with 9-ton Diesel-electric generators, kitchen & mess hall, refrigeration plant with six months' food supplies, airport...
Throughout the novel there is a powerful surge of adventure. From the opening, when the Irish Sandy Brissaut and his English wife, Getra, flee from the police by sea, to the concluding chapters concerning Andrew's and his companions' return from the bleak Russian steppes, a swift current of happenings bears the characters on swiftly, and at times, inexorably...