Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left the staff some years ago to become a free-lance contributor. Because of his dim sight (one eye was ruined when, in boyhood, his brother accidentally shot an arrow into it) he has written comparatively little in the last two or three years. He is forced to draw on huge sheets of paper, wearing special glasses (see cut). His last big writing job was a play, The Male Animal, done in 1940 with Elliot Nugent. From time to time, he shows up at the New Yorker offices, to stand in the corridors and shout "Nuts!" He still tells friends...
...dawn, she sighted a ship that looked, in the dim distance, like an armed raider. The stranger was twice challenged, and twice she ignored the "Daisy Mae." Then Lieut. Commander (now Commander) G. H. Stephen ordered his signalman: "Tell them we're going to open up if they don't answer.'' Back came the reply: "Carry on, Canada, with your gallant little ship...
...Arrow Safety Device Co.: a photoelectric device which will dim headlights automatically when struck by rays from approaching headlights or street lights...
...host of missionaries swarming into Ethiopia. Their aim: to "reclaim" for the Catholic faith the five million members of Ethiopia's ancient Christian Coptic Church. Since then Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God and Emperor of Ethiopia, has taken a very dim view of missionaries in general, Catholic missionaries in particular...
...cheaper books but better ones. Wrote Publisher Bennett Cerf (Random House) in the New York Post last fortnight: "The creation of a great reprint and chain-store market simply means that a deserving book will earn far more than it ever did before. The added bait may even dim the siren song of Hollywood in young authors' ears and persuade them to concentrate, as they did long, long ago, on making their every book the very best that they know, how to write...