Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the small, dim reception room at No. 23 Wall Street, Manhattan, filed some 30 subdued newshawks one afternoon last week. At 4 p. m. J. P. Morgan & Co. would issue one of its rare statements. Most of the newshawks knew what the statement concerned: division of the House of Morgan into two parts. One would continue commercial banking, which the firm elected to retain under the provisions of the Banking Act of 1933. The other part would re-enter the securities business in a new form and under a new name...
...night. On the hilltop slick-haired, thin-lipped Captain Lawrence L. Clayton of the U. S. Army Signal Corps and a sergeant bent over an apparatus of which the handful of witnesses, mostly newsmen, could make out little except the vague outline of a cylinder and the dim flicker of electric bulbs. Synchronized with the mechanism was an 800,000,000 candlepower Sperry searchlight mounted on a truck a few feet away...
Last year addicts of horror stories hailed Elizabeth Jenkins' Harriet as a masterpiece of its kind. Harriet told the story of a pathetic, dim-witted woman driven to death by four handsome youngsters who were fearsome only in their unconsciousness of their guilt. Critics saw tricks of style and manner that suggested Author...
...admit that there are many things in Liberia that demand improvement?that Monrovia is still primitive without a water supply, sewage disposal, pavements or telephones, and that the few and dim electric lights only emphasize the darkness of the tropic night. I had no sympathy with, and in fact publicly criticized, the action of Liberia in regard to a just debt but that matter has now been straightened out. It is also true that there is but one semblance of a road in the Republic, outside the Firestone plantation, but the Government is now building a thoroughfare through the interior...
...night last week Mexican soldiers buzzed over the bed of a dry lake, 7,500 ft. above the sea, smoothed out a homemade runway three miles long, marked it with flags. In the dim glare of automobile headlights and a young moon, a red monoplane was loaded with 470 gal. of gasoline, a batch of letters with "Amelia Earhart" stamps on them, six hard-boiled eggs, four sandwiches, thermos bottles of water, cocoa, tins of tomato juice...