Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...white and glistening and untouched it is. Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths) of a long-used mind, pitted with grievances, scarred with ugliness, cumbered with useless lumber, strewn with outworn hopes, clouded with disappointments and with sorrows, rusty with neglected opportunities, creaking with dismal hopeless habits. And then imagine the little lustrous honeycomb of cells of pearly pearly white that my son Simon...
...whole lot. Those who are fans of this star now will not be disappointed. Her supporting cast excells her in singing, and dancing but never in ability as an actress or personality. There are several talented minor characters who supply tricky dances which add immeasurably to the evening, otherwise dismal...
...Milnor felt satisfied, even triumphant, because the Stabilization Corp. had at last stabilized something. The Chicago wheat price had stayed where the Farm Board thought it ought to, 18? to 20? above Winnipeg and other world markets. The Board had turned its dismal failure of last Winter (TIME, March 10 et seq.) into a signal success. Wan but glad Mr. Milnor told newsgatherers: "I know that not only in grain circles, among millers, bankers and businessmen, but in Washington, a new attitude toward this action has developed overnight. If the Farm Board never did another thing, it will have justified...
...extension of the University building program to the Law School would alleviate this Spartan regime of bad food and dismal lodgings. The present ordeal seems hardly to inculcate an overpowering enthusiasm for the law. It might even be suggested that a portion of the thirty per cent mortality of every first year class is due more to discouragement and loneliness, caused by the physical obstacles of the present environment rather than to any mental hurdle set by the faculty...
...usual, issued bullish letters, said further reactions will be small. Few traders could find a sound reason for the advance, but many held that it would be the impetus which Business awaits. Especially encouraging was the strong bond market. From Massachusetts, where about a year ago was sounded the dismal warning which none heeded, last week came a bullish statement. Statistician Roger Ward Babson, 1929-5 most famed "Prophet of Doom," made his first modification of his very bearish stand of last year, his first general recommendation to buy stocks since 1924. Stocks suggested by the Babson Statistical Organization Service...