Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outfit. Experts hold up hopes for the future by saying that Coach Stubbs is bringing the local group along slowly and that it will reach its peak of efficiency at the crucial moment, when the Blue skaters might well be burned out. They hark back to performances in the dim and not so dim past, to final series in amateur and pro ranks in which a whirlwind pace has been maintained to the final hurdle. At that point, they say, the spent leaders have tripped and fallen...
...calm, persuasive statesman with weak eyes who served for eleven consecutive years as Foreign Secretary, made the entente with France and Russia, reluctantly but vigorously led Great Britain into the World War. Last week, though his years are now three-score and seven, and though his eyes are very dim indeed, Lord Grey made a brief, dignified public statement which had the effect of a dynamite depth bomb on his party-Liberal...
...purposes. The Haitian Government was therefore constantly borrowing more money, and with each successive loan realizing less and less of the total amount of the flotation. The bonds were increasingly hard to sell, both in Haiti and abroad, and as the bankers knew that payment in full was a dim and distant prospect they demanded huge commissions for their services...
...Meteors. Patient count and systematic estimation indicated to Iowa's Charles Clayton Wylie that 24 million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere daily. The dim ones, and almost all are dim, become visible about 75 mi. from earth's surface and burn out quickly. The bright ones explode about 15 mi. up. Relatively few fragments strike land...
...Keefe all around the ring, couldn't knock him out. In the ninth round he knew it was all over. ". . . Something reached out of the darkness and belted him on the jaw. He felt the canvas again, but under his back this time; he heard the dim roar but it was receding now, and the rain was falling on his face. 'Nine!' Hell! Up again. Wouldn't this round never end? But somebody had him by the wrist, pulling him to his feet. The fight was over...