Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soccer team would normally be an underdog against the Boston University Terriers. B.U. is, after all, the 17th-ranked team in the nation and boasts a 5-2-1 record. And with this season's paltry start (1-4-1, 1-1 Ivy League), Harvard's hopes seemed dim yesterday facing B.U. at its makeshift home field at the Middlesex School in Concord...
Conservationists hoped for more: not just Headwaters, but 60,000 acres of mostly scarred and bulldozed land that could be rehabilitated. There is a dim hope, still, that they will get it. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is slowly pursuing an old case against Hurwitz, having to do with a savings and loan collapse. A settlement of $250 million from Hurwitz was spoken of. So was a swap: debt for nature, maybe involving Pacific Lumber land...
...data will surely be compiled. But with both Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III saying they do not expect any major policy changes in the coming year, prospects for a revised house assignment policy any time soon seem dim...
...personal favorite is a piece of installation art by James Turrell--a dimly lighted room that the viewer enters through a narrow, black hallway. Inside are two dim lamps pointing toward opposite walls and what appears to be a black rectangle hung on the wall. I walked in and was not impressed. I'm not anti-minimalist--in fact, I loved the minimalist collection of the Orange County Museum--but two lights and a rectangle in a dark room...
According to Veneziano the field was not off kilter because of some dim-witted mistake. A track that encircled the field until 1982 needed six lanes instead of four on one side in order to accommodate sprinters...