Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of these fads and fancies were duly reported by Popular Mechanics, a lusty new magazine, whose editors ignored Einstein and took a dim view of the horseless carriage ("Not that the time will ever come when ... horses [will] entirely disappear from boulevard and town . . ."). They had more faith in lighter-than-air craft than they had in airplanes. They recorded the invention of perpetual motion machines and the impact of the telephone on the Turkish harem...
...Dim Future? In ICC's Washington hearing room, Paul J. Neff, MoPac president and chief operating man for the road's court-appointed trustee, took the stand to answer the question. His answer: no. MoPac's net profit, he agreed, had hit $22 million last year, but this year it would be closer to $13 million. It would drop still more in the future, said Neff, as the business boom tapers off and Korean war shipments decline. As President Neff's damaging testimony continued, Bob Young held whispered conferences in the back of the hearing room...
...more somber, tense character than his bell-raising predecessor of the twenties or his inflamed, rabble-rousing brother of the New Deal thirties. The contemporary student worries. He worries about the draft, about the world situation, about the lack of values, and most of all, about the dim, dim future...
...their services mainly in English, the principal one on Friday evening instead of Saturday (a few hold it on Sunday), and stress the ethical teachings of the prophets more than the ritual laws of Torah and Talmud. With the Reform Jews, the sense of being a chosen people is dim or extinct...
...contains little to scandalize anybody. Novelist Asch does try to rationalize a few of the Pentateuch stories, e.g., the "pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night" becomes a pall of light-refracting dust raised by the tramping Israelites and their cattle. Yet nothing can dim the essential grandeur of Moses and his mission...