Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beautiful: she'll pass if the light's dim and one doesn't peer too closely at the thick makeup and dyed hair...
...last year netted barely $10,000 on operating revenues of $5,997,000. Almost every other feeder is in the same squeeze. When Central Airlines asked the Fort Worth National Bank for more than $2,000,000 to replace its DC-35, the bank could only take a sternly "dim view"; Central has already been to the bank 107 times since 1949, is still in the red. To buy a needed old DC-4, Alaska's Reeve Aleutian Airways got a $500,000 bank loan only by pledging virtually the entire personal assets of President Robert C. Reeve...
...with foreign countries. Ohio's Bow, who has made a career out of attacking status-of-forces pacts, got his resolution through the House Foreign Affairs Committee by an 18-to-8 vote, and will very likely get it through the full House. But the Senate, asking a dim view of House meddling with the Senate's business of treaties, is expected to bury "the Bow thing" deep...
...must go out in great numbers as lay missionaries to practice the American Faith. Concludes Wylie: "And hear this: Everyone who goes forth in that fashion will be welcome. For I have looked into a million brown, beseeching eyes, and in all I saw the light of liberty, here dim but there radiant. And all those eyes implored me to tell...
...Patrol airplane, towing at the end of 100 ft. of clothesline a rubber plumber's helper fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...