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Word: dimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumulation (burial) of the Holy Father, a scattering of candles lit St. Peter's, in whose dim, religious light sat several thousand invited diplomats, nobles, churchmen and Vatican functionaries. The clergy of the Basilica committed Pius XI to his God with the same prayers chanted for humble sinners. Thirty-seven Cardinals gazed for the last time at the Pope's shrunken visage, then descended to St. Peter's crypt while workmen fastened down the wooden coffin-lids, soldered the leaden one. (They ran out of solder, held up the tumulation until more was found.) Finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Most Eminent Princes | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...shame! Was TIME or Mary Morris guilty of letting a dim-witted retoucher put a cigaret in Malraux's left hand (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...seven fat years since on the Times where he distinguished himself as an able articulator of the ideas of Publisher Arthur Hays ("The Boss") Sulzberger. For some time he has been one of the august council of seven-that tunes the Times. His new, sober post will probably not dim his quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Merz for Finley | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...dim-descended, black, divine-souled African, large, fine-headed, nobly-formed, superbly-destined, on equal terms with...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

...professionals; he writes exciting, if confused, narrative; even achieves some of the massive tediouness of the Russian novelists. But where the Russians succeeded best-in portraying the Russian peasantry who shaped the character of the Revolution-Author Hutchinson fails: the brilliant Russian surface of Testament cracks open to reveal dim, confused sketches of the real thing, a novel that at the core is English after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tour de Force | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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