Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He climbed "the long, dim stairway up from 14th Street, passed the two garbage cans on the landing, walked through a scabrous hall and entered the dingy and barnlike gymnasium ... To Floyd Patterson, as to many another slum boy, the prize ring seemed the only avenue of escape to a better world...
...original idea at Johns Hopkins was to find some way of brightening the dim X-ray shadows shown on fluoroscopes. If they are brightened by pouring more X rays through the patient, the effect on his health may not be good. With the Lumicon looking at the fluoroscope screen, a very faint picture, drawn by weak and harmless X rays, is made bright enough to show up clearly in a fully lighted room...
While thus taking a long, but critical view of the local scene, we inclined to take a dim view of the world in general, Although the CRIMSON's Executive Board was Republican, its Editorial Board remained largely Democratic. Predicted chaos, however, did not arise in this non-election year. The paper managed to steer a moderate course, somewhat to the left of President Eisenhower, and considerably to the right of former President Truman. While we took comparatively few swipes at the president himself, we could not resist his Secretary of State...
...writer read the tribute Pius XII paid the angelic Fra back in April. Angelico was more than a luminous knothole on the renaissance or a polychrome peephole on the Gospel. He was a window on Heaven. TIME brought us to the window, but a murky pane gave us a dim view of the wholeness, harmony, radiance beyond...
...their days off. They went to movies and to dances, sometimes had friends in for dinner, but generally lived so quietly that even their hallway neighbors were unaware that the famed sisters lived in the same building. Their mother visited them, but their father, who apparently took a dim view of his daughters' new way of life, never called...