Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkest antiquity. Neanderthal man used the purely pragmatic approach, testing his prespective cavemate's worth by applying repeated delicate blows of the club to the latter's cranium. Although clubs today profess to more advanced methods of social scrutiny, the general idea has remained the same throughout the dim search of Man for Friend...
Cave Dreamboat. A group of anthropologists had kind words to say for Neanderthal man, that extinct first cousin of modern humans, generally described as a dim-witted monster whose long arms dangled forward from stooping shoulders. This is slander, says Dr. William L. Straus Jr. of Johns Hopkins University. Neanderthal man probably stood upright with his limbs in seemly positions...
...heritage, and have discovered the startling truth that a sizable and important part of that heritage exists in their own backyard. U.S. art, as Americans in general are beginning to realize, is neither a series of blurred engravings out of half-forgotten school histories nor a dim reflection of painting abroad. For the past two centuries it has stood on its own feet, comparing favorably with the art of every other nation except France. Drawing depth and drama from the history it helps illustrate, it has reflected not European painting but American life-rough and smooth, tumultuous and diverse...
...tonight the lights in Sanders Theatre will begin to dim and, as a bell in the distance tolls midnight, a wary guard will glance upward and demand sharply, "Who's There?" And with these two words, the 100th production of the Harvard Dramatic Club will have begun...
...uncovered is today rated as a prime artistic find: five panels of 15th century medieval religious wall paintings, blurred but still color-bright. Experts guess that the cottage was once a pilgrims' wayhouse between British shrines. Except for purposeful defacing by some iconoclasts' pikes in the dim past, the murals remain as they were painted 450 years...