Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This film, already utilized in photographing sporting events at night, was designed primarily for astronomers to photograph very dim stars. Using film treated with neocyanine the solar spectrum has been photographed up to 11,634 angstrom units, far beyond red at 8,000 angstrom units, the longest visible wavelength...
...Author. Stephen Vincent Benet has no illusions about his own address on Mt. Parnassus. He calls himself a minor poet, says of himself: "I am but a shell,'' to be held against the ear to arouse a "dim, far whisper." Young (32), nearsighted, tall, stoop-shouldered, Poet Benet tried hard to get into the Army during...
...Pulitzer prize committee. Most schoolboys are familiar with his students' histories and college students are certain to use his more advanced texts in American History. Professor Channing's substantial contributions to history will not soon be forgotten nor will the memory of the man himself soon become dim among his associates...
Onetime Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and a half-dozen other States whose people spoke last week on this question . . . [and] hope to cajole repeal-Republicans, millions of good men & women, into an attitude of complacency concerning the thing they regard as vital...
...night three students-August F. Ballbach, 16, Harold G. Newman, 18, Ralph W. Hamn, 16-stole out of the school grounds. For the past three weeks this trio had been enjoying nefarious nocturnal outings unbeknown to the authorities. Excited but confident, they made off down Hightstown's dim little main street. Belted, muscular State troopers suddenly appeared, surprised and arrested them. The charge: larceny, robbery...