Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wear close to our hearts, was becoming regarded as an endocrine outlaw. Never have I stepped out upon lighter, more exhilarating air than during those days when I obtained, to me, convincing evidence that this hitherto baffling badge upon our hearts is an enduring souvenir of those dim and distant ancestral days when eggs were eggs-each housing the developing spark of life that, from first to last, those lowly ancestors of ours had a freedom and independence worthy of the name...
When the lights grow dim and the curtain rises over at Brattle Hall tonight at 8.30 o'clock, the assembled audience will be treated to a highly original and satirical comedy on modern life, a production which has attracted more interest than any recent Dramatic Club offering--"A Bride for the Unicorn" will come to life...
...Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights on the wing of his plane. He made an astonishing flight of 28 mi. offshore to Catalina Island. He took up Mary Pickford...
...sidewalk world listened, stared. The procession arrived at the Harlem Hospital. "Get up out of yo' beds. Get up an' be healed," shouted a girl's voice. "He is God," intoned the others. Overhead hung the red autogiro. After two hours marching, they streamed into great, dim Rockland Palace, praying, chanting, sweating. They began to stamp their feet. Divine appeared. "Oh Father Divine is so sweet, is so sweet," they chanted. On the platform Divine said nothing, rocked gently from side to side. Then he left for nearby Faithful Mary Mission, one of his many "extensions...
Before dawn one day last week workmen scurried about a dim, vast room in the Corning Glass Works at Corning. N. Y. For one day they were to be both stagehands and actors. For weeks they had rehearsed every movement they were to make during one eleven-hour performance-the pouring of the 2OO-inch (16 ft. 8 in.) telescope mirror for California Institute of Technology. High as a house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate...