Word: dim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheels of peacetime industry began to whir. Now, the millions of people who had been displaced by the needs of war would have to settle down again. Unemployment was more than a fear, or an overworked word out of the dim '30s; it was a fact. By Christmas, some estimated, there might be 5,000,000 out of jobs...
Pain and a price attended progress. The last great convulsion brought steam and electricity, and with them an age of confusion and mounting war. A dim folk memory had preserved the story of a greater advance: "the winged hound of Zeus" tearing from Prometheus' liver the price of fire...
...Orange, whose war-financing was down to the level of the nation's hock shops, asked a willing Parliament to approve the establishment of a Bank of England. Soon after, a corporation was formed and ?1,200,000 raised by public subscription. With 19 employes, and a dim consciousness of its mission, the bank opened for business in Mercers' Chapel. In 1734 it moved to a building of its own on Threadneedle Street, in the center of London. It is still there...
...Professor thinks he is likely to become more & more energetic, find the earth more & more stimulating. In the dim eons of prehistoric time, animals were unable even to crawl (because of lack of enough energy in their cells), and oxygen is a comparative newcomer (1,500,000,000 years ago) to the earth...
...week's end Winston Churchill also gave tongue. Funereally he warned that the situation had been "darkened and complicated" by Laski, "a new figure" who had "leaped into notoriety" and presided over "dim conclaves from below" whose purpose was to supersede the House of Commons...