Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elastic Soil. Real scientists take a dim view of Road to Survival. Here & there, they admit, among Vogt's errors, prejudices, mysticism and reckless appeals to emotion, they can find iotas of truth-but not many. From the verbiage of Vogt and his fellows, three central ideas about soil can be winnowed. All of these ideas are wrong, and the scientists knock them down easily...
...going to be enough. Lapham thought it was unrealistic to suppose that the U.S. could pull China out of her economic hole with a one-year program. Unless Congress was prepared to hand out many more millions, under firm U.S. controls, China's economic future was dim...
...Hurry. But China's chief worry last week was her military future, on which everything, including her economy, depended. That was worse than dim (see FOREIGN NEWS). Communist forces had overrun just about all of northeast China, were extending a throttling grip on the whole nation...
Mason's FTC colleagues take a dim view of his contention that FTC, instead of enforcing the antitrust laws, should "educate" business by telling trade associations how they should police their own houses. Mason argues tirelessly that it is "unfair" to prosecute one company while others are permitted to get away with the same thing. Grumbled one colleague: "I expect him to set that to music...
...sports writers stand on the sidelines, noting precisely who does exactly what on each play. But the lights are so dim that a human being's naked eye can barely see the helmets, let alone the play, let even more alone who made the tackle, and the hell with who should have made the tackle but didn...