Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story which appeared in the London Evening Standard on November 19, which stated that the play had been banned in Boston. Explaining that there had been one scene in which souls awaiting reincarnation wandered about the stage in flesh-colored bathing suits, Kilty said that bath robes and dim lights had been ordered to conform with local regulations...
This meant that President Truman's directive of last December, under which General George C. Marshall sought a compromise conclusion to China's civil war, had been outdated by events. Chiang's successes in the field had invalidated it. The Assembly meeting made hope for mediation dim as starlight...
...more. Last week in Technology Review, Sungazer Walter 0. Roberts of Harvard told how up-to-date astronomers dim the sun enough to get a good look at its atmosphere any time they please...
...second day Prime Minister Smuts summoned his Cabinet, later declared: "I'm not unduly concerned . . . the strike was not caused by legitimate grievances but by agitators." Immediately after the meeting drastic measures were taken to break the strike. Armed police descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers. Backed by a law forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans' organization) offices...
...student and that each Harvard man is a student. She knows that she came to Radcliffe because of Harvard but that she in no way differs from any other undergraduate. The only way she finds herself differing from and dependent upon the male species at Harvard is in a dim resignation to the fact that if she marries it will probably be to a Harvard man. Her attitude, alone of the three, is not unhealthy...