Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kerr said that the university will continue to become more involved in the life of society in other ways, as Newman's vision of the university as an "Ivory tower" grows dimmer. "Extension work is really becoming 'life-long learning,'" he noted, and added that television now means "the boundaries of the university are stretched to embrace all of society." In addition, university facilities, such as libraries, and centers for the performing and visual arts, will become more important in the nation's cultural life, Kerr predicted...
Unimpressed, the green and gold skaters from Potsdam, New York responded with two quick goals to take a commanding 4-2 lead. The Crimson's E.C.A.C. hopes never seemed dimmer...
...brightness of the new comet is 250 times dimmer than the dimmest object visible to the naked human eye. It has no tail, no central nucleus, and it is probably receding from the earth. But in the history of astronomy, it has a singular distinction: it was found by a 19-year-old lathe operator, chief support of a fatherless family, who made his own telescope...
...gallop into this Europeanization?'' shouted an angry legislator. "It should be done step by step." Citing the cost ($70,000) of joining the Council, Independent Representative Alois Grendelmeier of Zurich huffed, "Diplomatic missions are more than adequate for communicating with other states . . . our neutrality is getting dimmer and dimmer...
Such an interpretation seems eminently plausible. The Fine Arts Department's own opinion of studio courses is that they are valuable only when they set out to teach the principles and techniques of painting; and the department takes a much dimmer view of studio courses when they attempt to make painters--professional or Sunday--of the students. Unfortunately, as one member of the department has put it, it is "hard to keep these two motives separate"--a student often simply must learn to paint in order to understand the techniques he is investigating...