Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laborers were brought into Illinois from the East and from Europe. The crews brawled incessantly because of the "numerous groggeries along the line." They were plagued by cholera. But finally, on Jan. 8, 1855, the first through passenger train from Cairo reached Chicago, its coaches lit by dim whale-oil lamps. Along its right of way, flourishing villages sprang up. Soon the Central linked up with Mississippi steamboats, opened trade to the Gulf...
...watching his peas and cucumbers in quite a new way. In The Terror of the Twins, space is somehow seized as a weapon in the invisible hands of a spirit, and used to gouge the soul out of one man and prod it into another; the characters are dim as ghosts, but the malefic air is almost as palpable as a knife in the ribs...
...Book takes a dim view of careless methods of getting acquainted. "Don't date a friend of a friend of Bill Morton's; that's pretty hazy. As for the man who sits next to you in Psychology, well, you have eyes, haven't you? Pick-ups at the corner drug store and unchaperoned visits to a man's appartment are Out." It may be added here that most men don't ask Radcliffe girls to their apartments, that there are never any good-looking men in Psychology, and that most 'Cliffedwellers go to the corner drugstore for sandwiches...
...week's end, station WKGR's chances of going back on the air were dim indeed. Owners Coil and Kirby left town for Texas, where they are now members of the U.S. Air Force. Owners McCarter and Scheiderer, both ex-servicemen, had just about decided to enlist. Ex-Advertising Manager Richard Pfar, daily expecting his own Army call, offered a final comment on the short, busy life of Station WKGR: "Gee, if we had known we were operating outside the law, we wouldn't have done...
...glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous woman medium of the '80s used to permit patrons to kiss: it proved to be her own bosom, painted with a cherubic visage...