Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Brown's estimate, the 10,000 cubic parsecs* of space around the sun contain about 1,000 visible stars. Most of them are comparatively small; the smaller and dimmer being the most numerous. But stars that are too small and dim cannot be seen un less they are very near the earth, so their apparent number is low. If they are slightly smaller still, they give no light and cannot be seen...
...engaged to marry pretty Olympic Skier Barbi Henneberger when she was killed in the April 12 Alpine avalanche that also took the life of U.S. Down hill Ace Bud Werner. And the memory of that tragic day is not growing any dimmer for Willy Bogner Jr., 22, son of the Bavarian stretch-pants manufacturer and a fledgling moviemaker. He has been indicted by a Swiss state prosecutor for homicidal negligence in Barbi's and Werner's deaths. Such cases usually receive light sentences, but, for the sake of assigning responsibility, the state expects to prove that...
...labor's prospects of uprooting right-to-work are dim, the prospects of the National Right-to-Work Committee, under its President S. D. Cadwal-lader, a Cincinnati railroad conductor, of planting it in new ground are even dimmer. In industrial states, right-to-work is political poison. Says one A.F.L.-C.I.O. spokesman: "I'd like to see them put it on the ballot...
Forged Card. The pictures recall Anne Frank's diary-but they are dimmer; there is no precocity in them. Charlotte Salomon had studied art, and clearly had been impressed by the paintings of Edvard Munch-works with all the intellectual content of a scream. She painted in pursuit of self-abandonment-only to find that she had created a new world for herself in which she remained the grey onlooker, helpless to change the course of things but committed, all the same, to watch. From this she adopted her only moral: "I wish everyone I know the experience...
...them without letting his hosts or fellow guests suspect his feeling. The "throngs" that saw him off on his temporary emigration were as corrupt a crew of notable names as ever were dropped. His acquaintance included Bennett Surface, a characteristic Algren joke-name notable for being an even dimmer joke than any pulled by the original. And the pansy routine Algren sets going between a literary character named Norman Manlifellow and a "deeply tanned" writer named Giovanni is good for a yak, even though the material might be thought a bit crude by a Catskill M.C. for an Elks Club...