Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citizens big & small chipped in: Carmelo Digerlando, 64, a blue-aproned shoemaker whose eyes have grown dim and his hair white since he left Sicily 40 years ago; Judge T. Linus Hoban, a war hero; thrifty, 13-year-old newsboy Harold Kornfeld; live wire Roy Stauffer, Chevrolet dealer. Total number of bond buyers...
Paradoxically, the Douglas profit picture looked dim because the future of aviation was so bright. Aviation is making such tremendous strides that new planes often become obsolete before they get into mass production. Thus the tremendous costs of experimentation and development of new models can no longer be charged off over a long period of production and sales. Starting this year, Douglas will charge all such expenses off as current costs...
...enemies in World War II. But with Perón the winner, his country's presence at the proposed Rio conference of American republics would be embarrassing to all, and most to the U.S. Prospects that the conference would meet this month-or even this spring-were growing dim...
...Dim-lit, shadowy, full of menace and unimaginable chances, stretched all around my door the many-peopled streets. I could hear, ominous and muffled, the tides of traffic, sounding multitudinously along their ways. Was I equipped for the navigation of those waters, armed and ready to adventure out into that dangerous world again...
...double star Zeta Aurigae, said Harvard's Dr. Zdenek Kopal, consists of a smallish blue-white star waltzing through space with a huge "red giant." As he expected, the little star passed behind the big one. But its light did not dim out with proper regularity. Dr. Kopal peered long and hard at his spectro-photographs, concluded that the atmosphere of the red giant had shot out a vast "prominence," 600,000 miles wide. "Watch Zeta Aurigae," he advised the astronomers...