Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three men set out in a boat from Ireland and the consequences are their own. Let the three whirl a propeller in the dim mist of an Irish morning, eat nibbly breakfasts, wave carefully courageous goodbyes and set off into the West as though frightened by the rising sun, and the wheels of the world are set churning with their...
Daggers flash in the dim light of Chinese opium dens, doors roll back at the touch of the villain's finger and the spectator is led through an amazing labyrinth of underground passages which lead to the apartments of the opium king of the Chinese underworld. The scenario is highly improbable throughout and in places is not even connected...
...forty years ago, as a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, spoke out his allegiance to the old law with these words: "When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening pas;--figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by while mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic...
...rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark music of her instrument, bringing with them some hot beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk of himself, sitting happily in the dim light of the parlor and enjoying his heightened self, his ease, his good looks, Theodosia's beauty, all the delights of remembered being. . . . Albert would come heavily into the parlor although his feet were agile and his large frame was light to his motions. He filled the parlor with...
Injuries continued yesterday to dim the lustre of the chances of the University football team against Brown on Saturday. It was learned definitely that Dudley Bell '28, stellar pivot of the Crimson forward line, and J. G. Douglas '30, the Sophomore whose work at end has been a feature of the late games, will be unable to face the Bruins...