Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the truth came out. The kitchen helper seeking the powdered milk had dim-wittedly come back from the wrong storeroom with seven pounds of sodium fluoride roach powder, with which hurried, overworked Cook McKillop had scrambled the eggs. At week's end McKillop and his boss, Mary O'Hare, were booked on charges of involuntary manslaughter...
West Coast deaf-mute supply chief is redheaded, ham-handed William B. Sain, a wireless technician and diemaker who, aware of the dreary and dim cult lives of most of his 2,000 fellow Los Angeles deaf-mutes, decided after Pearl Harbor to equip them to help the war effort, persuaded the U.S. Employment Service to let him open up class in the defense school at Inglewood High. There he has to date graduated 250 mutes in bench machining, 150 more in machine-shop practices, shop mathematics and blueprint reading. The mutes themselves developed the new industrial sign language they...
There was nothing about the Eisenhower tradition to suggest this choice. In a dim past the Eisenhowers were Swiss and the name was Eisenhauer. Ike's father and mother met at a small religious college in Kansas, married and raised their brood of boys. Mother Eisenhower still lives in the old white house in Abilene...
...year-old spinster (she was born lacking a sense of taste or smell; became deaf in childhood) first saw "the dim shore" of her destination as "a long line of the New Jersey coast, with distinguishable trees and white houses." "I was taken by surprise," she wrote, "by my own emotions. All that I had heard of the Pilgrim Fathers, of the old colonial days, of the great men of the Revolution, and of the busy, prosperous succeeding days stirred up my mind...
...Institute is responsible for one of Harvard's major contributions to the war effort, as grinning section men daily ask "How you say dis please?" The least of the building's occupants was the informal Harvard Peeping Tom Society, which collapsed after a few weeks last summer when the dim-out and finally the closing of the Reading Room and the front door shut off the Wigglesworth landscape...