Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace and mind our business only the wanton assault of a wanton nation can ever embroil us. This may happen, it cannot be denied. But it is a dim, remote possibility, while the fruits of militarism are defined and all too certain. We are no more immune from them than are other nations, and the price we may pay will be that which they have paid...
...possibility of a real swimming pool at the University, like the hopes for a new chemical laboratory when Boylston burns down, or buildings for the Business School, has long been accepted as something to be realized in the dim future when a former champion plunger become millionaire had an attack of generosity. To have the pool within reach, definitely planned and to be ready for use next year, is almost unbelievable...
...long as they show fertility rather than poverty of imagination." No doubt W. L. Geroge is a genius; this masterpiece is from one of his novels; "The cloud that tried to stab their happiness was only a false rumor whose bitter taste could not shatter the radiance nor dim the effervescence of their...
...looks of the undergraduates, by the pensive droop of their heads, by their strife to be polite to visitors despite the calamity, by the dim lights of the club, by the English tea, by the yearning of the club members fingers toward the breast pocket where the pencil lay, I realized that a great blow had been struck that day for the furtherance of Yale letters...
...will be interesting to see how a twentieth century audience will take to the Miracles, as represented by the two presented tonight by the Dramatic Club in the Germanic Museum with a Cathedral arch and and later for a background and a "dim, religious light" supplied by electricity carefully concealed off-stage. The limited number who will be fortunate enough to see the "Lutterworh Christmas Play" and the "Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors" will find themselves as nearly in the atmosphere of the original miracles as it is possible for ingenuity and modern appliances to reproduce...