Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dim past of the Middle Ages, when the upstart poet Dante Alighieri began to write serious verse in the "vulgar tongue", and his work was accepted by scholastic Europe, a new precedent was established. It took six centuries for that precedent to make its influence dominant, and not until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...
...name "Roosevelt" is one to conjure with wherever there are Americans and particularly Harvard men. The second "Colonel", who will speak at the Union this evening, has in no way allowed the lustre of the name to grow dim. Prominent in national affairs since his graduation from the University he has behind him a remarkable record. In the Great War he served with distinction. He filled an important position at the Washington Conference. At present he occupies the office of assistant-secretary of the Navy--succeeding his cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Thus drifting afar to the dim vaulted caves
With the true causes of war as dim and uncertain as in the famous duel of Lewis Carroll's, General Wu and General Chang marched forth, each fighting against the other for the unity of China. General Wu has won after a battle lasting several days, and controls Peking and the government; while Chang is fleeing northward, his troops scattered in all directions...
Incidentally, and wholly without rancor, we cannot see where Harvard and Yale men are so much more unforgetful than the great majority of other college graduates. Back in the dim recesses of memory we seem to hear echoes of "Good old College days"-and "When we were boys together in X--", and the like. Still, hallucinations are very possible in these advanced days of spiritism...