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Word: dimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barring the dim possibility that Bob Kiputh dilutes his championship 400-yard freestyle relay team as he did last week, the Elis are certain to win, with the Crimson a possible second...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Swimming Championships To Enter on Second Day | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

Dostoevsky with Gin. The British run justice, administration and the drains, but they have the dead feeling that they are only caretakers for the Chinese and Indian merchants who run the rackets. The new sahibs come from unstately homes (with names like Kosy Kot) in dim English suburbs. They never had it so good ("We're on to a good thing here, and for Christ's sake let's enjoy it"), but it is not good enough. They are perpetually in hock to the merchants, forever struggling to make the frayed ends of their tropical pants match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unquiet Englishman | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...varsity fencing team, with a dim hope of finishing fourth in the Ivy League, will battle for that spot this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. with a slightly favored Yale squad. The Crimson needs at least a 16-11 win today to nose out the Elis for fourth by one bout...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Yale Fencers Rated Over Crimson Varsity at IAB | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...prospects are very dim for the Crimson team which finished seventh in a field of eight at the Middlebury Ski Carnival last week, and ninth in a field of eleven at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival the previous week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Underdogs at Williams | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...passage . . . While the noise came nearer the dormitory, the walls, ceiling and floor of the passage re-echoed and trembled behind it ... The students in the dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco, I am saved.' . . . The seminarists leapt out of bed and fled without knowing where to go . . . All had heard the noise and some of them the voice without gathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ghost Stories | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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