Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With private automobile driving down around 35%, the number of accident claims has fallen 25 or 30%; today's accidents are more serious, as a result of dim-outs, tired defense workers behind the wheels, and worn-out tires and cars. Also, in areas where share-the-ride clubs are active, automobile occupancy has increased from 2.2 persons to 4.8 persons per car,* so more people are involved when accidents do happen. Result is that claims paid are now 25 to 35% bigger than usual...
...swank, black Packard whispered over the mud-covered asphalt street, drew up at the new south wing of the District of Columbia's ancient red-brick jail. Out in the rain stepped greying Coroner Dr. A. Magruder McDonald. In the dim-lit vestibule a dozen reporters sat on death watch for the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs. Some of them had waited more than 24 hours. The Coroner had nothing to say. But his mere presence told them their vigil would soon be over...
They had to learn to rely, under bad instrument-flying conditions, on the primary aids of their dim-lit cockpit panel: the indicators for turn, bank and rate of climb, and the air-speed dial. But until they got into conditions so bad that the birds themselves walked, they could not learn to use those aids properly. That took time...
...beautiful little Japanese girl cannot marry because the girl's father says no. Arbitrarily attached to this framework, like seaweed to an empty oyster shell, are some filamental anecdotes about Japanese officialdom and Tokyo's foreign colony. The characterization is stiff, the local color dim. This is that book all newspaper men are going to write instead of hanging around in bars. It might have been a better book if the author had hung around in more bars...
...astonishingly dim-witted are the 170,000 Dutch workmen drafted into German factories that Nazi officials consider them "considerably worse" than any other imported workers...