Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bathing as usual on our beaches, unhampered by oil. No bodies have washed ashore. No lights are extinguished in beach houses (occupants are merely required to lower shades on windows facing the ocean), and cars do not extinguish lights (merely dim them) when driving oceanward. Vacationists are finding the dimout a unique experience, which most of them enjoy...
With the current news from Libya and the Crimea, the star which the complacent West had begun to see over the Eastern front seems to be sputtering and growing dim. Of course this is not the first time since the Allied offensives in Africa and in Russia that temporary revivals of Nazi power have appeared. Nor is it the first time since 1939-or even the first time since the close of the Chamberlain administration-that the British have openly expressed a lack of confidence in the conduct of the war. But while Rommel had the English with their backs...
...life's work, is a combined gadfly and sales talk. These instruments are chiefly the radio and the cinema—what Wells calls "canned teaching." The knowledge Wells would have them impart is chiefly scientific. As a reason for remaking the world to redeem not the soul but the dim wits of Teddy Tewler, Author Wells's program raises a simple question: "Is it worth...
...March 5, Cambridge blacked-out, and students saw to it that Harvard was "perfectly" darkened, according to Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant. Two months later came the dim-out, as the Square was grayed, and students were asked to draw their shades, to comply with the Army's orders...
When Santa Monica, Calif, officials told an amusement-park operator to dim his lights, he was unperturbed. Said he: "We'll have dimout rides now and I believe the young folks will like that." This was no news to Coney Island, for the past month dimmed beyond recognition. "Coney Island," said a cop, "is just one big tunnel of love...