Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote about. In Sailor on Horseback, Irving Stone, whose novelized biography of van Gogh, Lust for Life, was a best-seller four years ago, gives a good picture of London's incredible literary labors, a good account of his strenuous domestic life, a dim picture of the period in which his books flourished. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Sailor on Horseback is brisk and candid, has few of the selfconscious, lugubrious literary passages that weighed down Lust for Life...
...Seth Barnes Nicholson, keen-eyed young graduate student at Lick Observatory, sighted Satellite IX. Last week the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced that Dr. Nicholson, still in California looking for new moons, had discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...
...bales, an almost three-fold increase over a year ago. Since U. S. cotton consumption and exports last year totaled 11,432,000 bales, only 556,000 more than the estimated 1938-39 crop, prospects for a sizable reduction of this tremendous carry-over are dim indeed. Last week, cotton prices tumbled to 8.20? a lb., making loans mandatory under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace singled out cotton as "perhaps the most difficult single situation with which we are faced...
...trains; his lovely granddaughter (Olivia de Havilland), so bored with mercenary suitors that she longs to meet a man who hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent. Their antics-when the millionaire turns his great Danes loose on the pressagent, when the pressagent retaliates by buttering the tracks of the toy railroad, when...
...presence of such a thing as Spinachanthropus in the dim, dusty corridors of the past may necessitate entire revision of present theories concerning the descent of man from Northarctic, the naked polar bear. Instead of Northarctic, the root of all evilution may very likely be one of the progenitors of Spinachanthropus. This progenitor has not been discovered yet, but the very presence of Spinachanthropus itself indicates that he must have had a father, which in turn must have had a father and so on. Spinachseed is confident that he will not have to look too far back for this ancestral...