Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright light bleaches the visual purple, a pigment in the retina which is needed for vision in dim light. Overexposure slows the retina's power to restore the purple when needed...
...Chapel, across the Yard. Vag slipped down to one group, heading south to sing some more, and crossed back over Massachusetts Avenue with them. There were the stores again, still garish, but they looked foolish now, alone against the bigness of the night. The lights above the sidewalk were dim if you set them against the Dipper, high and very bright indeed...
...musical revue, much like the Broadway product--and this in the same room where you can eat a wiener schnitzel and drink an African Zombie. At 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. the nitery's green-vested waiters clear the dessert dishes and fill the water glasses; the lights dim, and the stage at one end of the room becomes the center of interest for the next hour, as a group of young singers and dancers take over...
...Government in World War II, summarizes the feelings of the layman toward the newest weapons in the world's arsenals. In a book to be published next week-Modern Arms and Free Men (Simon & Schuster; $3.50)- he devotes himself to the job of illuminating some of the dim corners of science's weapon shop...
...much care what ails him, so long as he is promptly cured. Dr. William J. Kerr of the University of California's Medical School, a top authority on the subject, believes that only 25% of cold symptoms are due to allergy. Arguing from this thesis, he takes a dim view of anti-histaminics as cold cures. Said he: "To get one shot out of four wouldn't be very good hunting-and it's lousy medicine...