Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she was on to a winner. After World War I, Hemingway and the crowd who read and wrote for Eugene Jolas' magazine transition flocked admiringly round Gertrude, the great writer. People who liked pictures came to look at her collection. Leo had turned into Gertrude's dim brother...
...Boston, and if he had had his way would have stayed there all his life. Father Adams, however, insisted he go to Harvard. John did well at college but showed more doggedness than brilliance. "I never have any bright, refulgent ideas," he once complained. "Everything appears in my mind dim and obscure, like objects seen through a dirty glass or roiled water...
Pluto, the outermost planet of the solar system, is so small, dim and far away (3.7 billion miles) that astronomers have seen it only as a point of light like a star, have had to estimate its size by calculating the apparent effect of its gravitation upon the motion of Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...
...platform: "Prove to the world that women are better equipped from every standard to bring order out of chaos . . . women are about to fulfill their allotted destiny." Bonney Altman, proprietor of Altman's Store and Cafe on Main Street, and owner of the local telephone exchange, took a dim view of such talk: his wife was running for mayor, his sister-in-law and one of his employees were running for the town board. "They say they're running on a nonpartisan ticket," said Altman, "but, if I know my wife, it will be the labor party. Believe...
...world's dim picture of Joseph Stalin as a human being was sharpened up a little last week. The twelfth volume of Stalin's collected works, issued in Moscow, contained an unpublished letter-a warm, personal note-that Stalin wrote in 1930 to his friend, Author Maxim Gorky (TwentySix Men and a Girl), then ill with tuberculosis in Italy...