Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lens of the eye casts the image) has two kinds of visual cells: cones, each with its direct line to the brain; rods connected in multiple to the optic nerve fibers. The cones give sharp, color vision, work in bright light only. The rods "gang up" faint and dim impressions in weak light, catch no color. Some animals have cones but apparently no color vision; no known color-seeing animals have rod cells alone...
...Salvador Dali, not least because in the grotesque juxtaposition was revealed so much of . . . their sense of the necessity to acknowledge what they could not experience in their hearts because life lad set them too high, the agenbite of inwit, the gnaw of an impersonal remorse and a dim perception of the far-off sorrow of others...
...Pinch. Thus far, U.S. ground troops in combat have not felt the pinch because of this 25% reduction in the proposed program. But troops in training have, are now at best only 50% equipped. And prospects for improvement are dim under WPB's rules and industry's performance. Battle is eating up ground force weapons and the draft is pouring in millions more men who must be equipped. But production of ground-force weapons rose only 3% in February, 8% in March, and an estimated 5% in April...
...rear echelon; South Pacific Amphibious Force's transport commander, Lawrence F. Reifsnider; Robert Grimes Coman of the Southwest Pacific's Service Force. Like their Army counterparts, brigadier generals, commodores will wear one star. Like all task-force men, their chances of seeing action are never dim...
...survivor, safe in a British port, told how the huge pack of U-boats had closed in on his convoy one dim evening. Losses were heavy in the night. After his ship was sunk the next day, he saw R.A.F. Sunder-lands and Catalinas, and later land-based bombers, attack the pack. The survivor doubted German claims that the U-boats had put down 32 eastbound Allied ships totaling 204,000 tons...