Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about this old-style trilogy (its component novels were published in the U.S. more than a decade ago, but this is the first U.S. publication of all three in a package). Most remarkable fact about this work: Novelist L. P.* Hartley manages to sustain interest in several essentially drab, dim characters over 736 closely printed pages...
...another on the import of the House Plan, cautioned the Class of '33: "But when all this is over, when glittering generalities on the value of a college education, fight talks from the football coach and captain, ecstasy and despair over triumph and defeat have faded into a dim haze in the subconscious mind, the class will gradually realize that with the beginning of their sophomore year they wil be a part of one of the most important social experiments ever attempted in American education...
...stones so that the demonstrators did not even have to bend down to find their missiles. Taking aim, the crowd managed to break 57 windows in the assembly building while Tahitian gendarmes tried vainly to recall what the textbooks said about riot control. An official who still retained a dim memory of how these things are handled in Europe ordered fire hoses turned on the crowd- but the water pressure proved so low that the demonstrators were gently sprayed instead of being driven from the street...
Rhyne's chances of following after Lawyer Tillett were dim indeed: his family simply did not have enough money to send him to college. After his farm years of milking, plowing, picking cotton, bushy-haired Charlie Rhyne got a city job as a Western Union messenger boy in Charlotte. With $300 in savings in hand, he enrolled at Duke University. He had an early-morning newspaper route; he sold Bibles in West Virginia during the summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver...
...lights are dim around the huge horseshoe bar, and the many couples leaning together, heads filled with beer and good bourbon, make the room even darker. There is a dance later, at which no liquor is allowed...