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Word: dimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British airmen conducting the strategic aerial offensive from Britain take a dim-and angry- view of that disappointment. FORTUNE Editor Charles J. V. Murphy recently interviewed them, came up with a strong statement of their position for the December issue of FORTUNE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: They Saw Rockets | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...pretense of liking the war they were fighting. It was just a job to get done so a man could go home again. The example of the plodding Chinese, the bulk of work they turned out, was enough to spur Americans on when the thoughts of home grew dim and the dust and sweat became intolerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR,COMMAND,HEROES,CIVILIAN DEFENSE: The Fourteenth | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Because political observers rate the General's chances as dim, the New Deal high command seemed reluctant to go all out on a test case against Dewey. At week's end the General was still waiting for the mighty shove from Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General and Holy Joe | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...contact with all the people and scenes which it will recall to mind in the years to come. In that future period, though we may think otherwise at the moment, we will be interested in the men who are now undergoing the same ordeal that we are. In those dim and uncertain years we will derive great satisfaction from being able to refer to our won "Rough Roll" when we run across ship-mates in other circumstances...

Author: By J.d. Wilson, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...light--and a rather dim, flickering light at that--of last Thursday night's Company Dog smoke, it has been strongly suggested that your correspondent's by-line consist of just plain "Toots," and it probably would be a good idea if such reportorial cuteness could succeed in running the battery of editorial blue pencils, but, alas, for the sake of naval dignity, the "Toots" part will have to remain sort of unofficial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

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