Word: dimmest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little play of puppets...everything happens in it that could never happen, its personages are not real men and women, nor the shadows of them, but dolls or marionettes of paste and cardboard, moving upon wires which are visible even in a little light and to the dimmest eye," Jacinto Benavente says in the prologue to his play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially in the second...
Syncom I is orbiting at an average height of 22,000 miles. At this height its brightness is of the 17th magnitude, or 25,000 times fainter than the dimmest object that can be seen by the naked...
...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...
...prompt action on his entire package, but with Congress heading toward adjournment in early summer, one Capitol Hill insider prophesied: "It doesn't look as if there will be a helluva lot of legislation coming out of this message this year." Chances for action this year are dimmest for Kennedy's most meaningful and controversial proposal-to cut the floors out from under bulk commodity and farm-product rates. Prospects are much brighter for early enactment of the two proposals sure to prove popular with lobbyists and voters alike-scrapping the transportation tax and handing out millions...
About the only way that McCormack could fail to get the job would be if the Kennedy Administration were to go all out in opposing him-and that was the dimmest sort of possibility. As it happens, Jack Kennedy and John McCormack, both natives of Massachusetts, have never been very friendly, either politically or personally. But McCormack worked hard for President Kennedy's programs, with the single exception of the Administration's aid-to-education bill, which he opposed because it did not include assistance to parochial schools. There is some feeling that Roman Catholic McCormack...