Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nicholas E. Wagman announced that the bright star, Alpha Ophiuchi, had a very significant wobble. After watching it for years, he had decided that it must be the dominant member of a couple. Apparently, it was revolving once in eight and a half years around a dimmer star. He did not see the "dark companion" -"dark" only by comparison with the glare of Alpha Ophiuchi...
Toward the Beach. We were nearly ten miles from the beach. The continuous circling in the water was tedious and some of us fell asleep. When we woke the yellow moon was turning orange and growing dimmer, the sky to our left was lit by flashes of gunfire where the British were supposed to be attacking Salerno, and now & then a huge glare ripped apart the darkness, as if a ship were exploding out to sea. But before us all was quiet and dark. We broke our circle and headed in a column toward a shore, which we could...
...alternative was a prolonged war of attrition and defense of the lines now established in Russia. But, as a continental front in the west loomed nearer & nearer, the German chances of sustaining the enormous armies necessary for such a defense became dimmer & dimmer...
...possibilities of their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering Sea; Alaskan air routes were in operation. Last week the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce revealed that supplies in quantity were being flown from the U.S. to Alaska, thence to Russia and China. U.S. bombers may one day take the same route...
Fighting, working, making love, hanging out their clothes to dry, the Russians carried on. It was all they could do except hope. And last week that hope grew dimmer. No longer did the Government send leaflets to the troops reading: "Hold on, help will come soon." Having lost, by unofficial estimate, about 5,000,000 dead or wounded, the Russians were in no mood to sympathize with Dieppe Commando raid losses. Their Ukraine breadbasket was being trampled by hordes of Germans. Germans stood deep in the Caucasus. They spread over the entire, scorched valley of the Don. Bitterness grew...