Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, all the hundreds of Wallace placards had vanished. The three huge white Wallace balloons, which had hung over the convention all day, were let go; they floated swiftly to the dim rafters overhead, there to bump softly above the smoke, the lights, and the cheers...
...years. Most likely it will weigh no more than 2,000 lbs., will operate on a high-compression, 90-octane gasoline engine that will save its owner from 20% to 25% of his fuel bill. Other dream-features: 1) better visibility, 2) pneumatic rubber springs, 3) photoelectric cells to dim lights automatically when other cars approach, 4) a rear-mounted engine for less noise, heat and odor...
...Felt. The failure of communications could not dim the assault correspondents' heroism. The A.P.'s Henry B. Jameson was the first American newsman casualty. The craft he rode to France was offshore 14 hours, frequently under heavy fire. Hit in the shoulder and leg, Reporter Jameson was able to walk off smiling (see put). First killed: the British Exchange Telegraph's Arthur Thorpe, in a naval action...
...Mark catered to as many as 30,000 uniformed men a month. Last week it was closed to them. It was put out of bounds by official order of home-stationed Army & Navy officials. Reason: in the dim light bartenders had sold drinks to servicemen under...
...solidifies in prestige, pomp and circumstance seep into the drawings (not to mention the ad copy). But there is an image of 1912 evening pleasure, with its silky escort, its four moth-white, moth-soft ladies enwombed in the felicities of a cross-sectioned Waverly Electric, in a rain-dim street, which catches a sort of elegant U.S. ecstasy that few conscious artists have caught...