Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...omnipotent buying public carries in its mind only a dim conception of the part played in its daily life by this enormous new pseudoscience, advertising. How did that tube of Pepsodent toothpaste, for instance, reach your bathroom shelf? Somewhat as follows...
Communion with shapes of mist and Welsh witches, her familiars by dim inheritance, greatly, but not entirely alleviates the twinges of mockery...
...galleries of a Dutch church in thrifty eastern Pennsylvania, a group of disciples harkened steadfastly - not disciples of steel nor of any god, but of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician immortal. Musingly reminiscent of medieval Leipzic with Bach playing out his enrapturing arias to the misty Gothic arches of some dim cathedral, sadly reminiscent of the early years of sparse recognition, analogously reminiscent of later days, when devotees trekked across long roads to hear their master's playing, painfully reminiscent when modern renditions betrayed the ancient, were the 1200 who assembled in Bethlehem to attend the annual Bach festival there...
...stair creaked. . . . The sound rang through the empty house like a shout. On the dim stairway a shoe was hastily withdrawn from the articulate board; a girl crouched against the balusters listening. The noise had been her own fault, but she was too bundled up to move altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding...
...expedition which Dr. Spinden and I are leading through Eastern Yucatan will diligently seek dates to piece out the dim record of those vanished builders. We cannot hope to find inscriptions before the first definite date in the history of the New World which is August 6, 613 B.C. This is historical zero, discovered in calculations, but the first dated monument comes a full five centuries later. But we should be almost equally pleased to throw light on the abrupt downfall of this lost people. For human interest, after all, is the fundamental appeal in this riddle, and one cannot...