Word: dim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the end of the long underground corridor, the sight of a gray naval gun can be discerned in the dim, half-light. Here in one corner is a deep sea bomb. A man is painting a periscope from a submarine in another part of the room. The Naval Science Department has asked for the use of Memorial Hall as its base, but they have been granted only a section in one of the remote parts of the basement. Once again the martial beat is in the heart...
...stormy background of Richard II is dim for readers today, and its Elizabethan undertones are lost, but the poetry remain, as Professor Matthiessen will demonstrate today in Emerson A at eleven o'clock...
Reichsgericht. Premier Braun was back in his office as the result of doings last week in Leipzig, aloof seat of the Reichsgericht or German Supreme Court. In its dim and stately chamber, Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke handed down what would have been a momentous decision if it had not been one of the most ambiguous verdicts ever given by a Supreme Court...
...artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...
...possible. This last group fails to realize that the burden of the proposed immediate bonus payments and the load of the wasted millions falls directly on all the people in the shape of taxes, and particularly on this younger generation to which the Great War is only a dim reality. Congress has already permitted veterans to borrow on their bonus certificates a sum practically equal to what would have been the amount of the bonus if payed in 1926. The Legion, entirely overlooking the compound interest involved in the 1945 payments, asks in effect that the government pay twice...