Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zane Grey is a good writer. His immense popularity should not dim that fact. His descriptive passages sometimes glow with beauty and imagination. He is one of the few novelists who appeals consistently to the Average American. His characters are heroic, they are unreal, they catch and hold the imagination. It is probably this last fact, and the fact that he writes so much, that keeps him from being a "critic's" writer. But there are few living authors who know the out-of-doors so well, and who can write of it so vividly...
Where death's dim fingers have begun to feel
...pulled tendons in the same afternoon's practice yesterday did much to dim the chances of the University track team, for its meet with Yale in the Stadium next Saturday...
...century and 220-yard dashes, the hammer throw, the shot put, and the javelin the Harvard Freshmen loom strong, but such Exeter men as Captain O'Neil, Eliot, and Brandenbury make the chances for first honors in the other events appear dim. O'Neil, who in a winter meet last year at Bowdoin scored 25 points himself, is entered in the quarter mile, half mile, and mile events today, and, if previous records can be trusted, should break the tape in each. In the 880-yards run he holds the interscholastic record and by making it in 1 minute...
...balm for the broken spirited, in spite of it all. A mere up-start who wins his way to the proud title of duke pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members...