Word: dim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Alphabet State, who work with a minimum of salaries, facilities and raw material to turn out the people who are the backbone of our country. On a clear day one may feel that the backbone has slipped a disc, and yet I sometimes have occasion to take a dim view even of our product...
...begins with a patronizing sketch of her mother's dim life-pious, faithful, impoverished, with only one book dedicated to her, and that "published at the author's expense." She had not wept for her father, and she told her sister that it would be "the same for Maman." Yet, on the night that her mother went under the knife, "I went home; I talked to Sartre; we played some Bartok. Suddenly, at eleven, an outburst of tears that almost degenerated into hysteria. Amazement...
Scully's soaring lectures on architecture every year enroll no less than one-fifth of all Yale undergraduates?plus some 100 non-enrolled auditors who may catch him for four years and never hear precisely the same lecture twice. Waiting for the lights to dim for his slides, Scully paces head down like a halfback about to take the field. Then he swings his 10-ft. pointer, whomps the screen as if to destroy a bad building, jabs it like a fencer to stress a point ?and buildings take on life. "What does a building want...
...Green will also be well represented in the javelin, with several performers over the 190 ft. mark. But after those three events, Dartmouth's chances of success look dim against a Crimson line-up that strengthens every week...
...Despite alleged grading flaws, the Naval Academy last year won six Fulbright scholarships. But, of course, regardless of scholarship, present-day educators are bound to take a dim view of any institution in which there has never been a campus riot or a dirty-speech rally. The academy's mission is to prepare Americans to defend their country at sea. If the professors will consult their history books, they will find that, judging from the Navy's battle record, the academy does a pretty good...