Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billings' selection of detail told a lot about Calvin Coolidge, the stock from which he sprang, and a lot about the U.S. and about a period which, even in 1933, was becoming dim. The "point" of the story was news because, although it may be hidden, the New England stamp, the shrewd, homely democracy of the little white towns, is impressed on the American character...
...robust integrity without any trace of pettiness," he could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...
...hitch was that the U.S. Senate's Small Business Committee took a dim view of the deal. It had just taken the committeemen five months to find out its terms, and they doubted its value to the U.S. Ambassador Wrong's dream boat would not have plain sailing...
There seemed to be no end to the swarming nebulae. The most distant showed as tiny, dim blobs. By a complex statistical method Hubble proved, after years of work, that these dimmest glimmers were so far away that their light, speeding at 186,000 miles per second, took 500,000,000 years to reach Mount Wilson...
...already dim Crimson winter sports record became just a bit darker on Saturday when the Varsity wrestling team lost its first match of the season to a strong Army squad by the score of 18 to 11 in West Point's aged gymnasium...