Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treasury is a small, dim office stacked high with files and catalogues of tapes and recordings, in Room G156 of the Library of Congress. Next door is a recording studio and a small listening booth. This is the physical plant of the Folklore Section of the Library of Congress. The secretary of this treasury - as well as collector, personnel manager and salesman - is a quiet, greying scholar of 47 named Duncan Black Macdonald Emrich, author of, among other things, Who Shot Maggie in the Freckle...
Rules of the Rood. In Uniontown, Pa., Truck Driver William Jackson, 59, was arrested on charges of firing his two pistols at ten approaching motorists who failed to dim their lights...
...growls Red Allen happily, "the Metropole don't retard on the loot." Nor do the boys retard on the noise. Whatever the number, the decibel is mightier than the dolce. Dixieland's adolescent nights, with their soulful solos, apparently are lost in the dim past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together for a jam session, the four chandeliers have been known to shake and rattle while the music rolled. The bar tenders are so used to making themselves heard above the din that they shout even when...
...them, the forbidding exterior, the long dim lit halls, the closely packed display cases designed for study but not for showmanship-all fit the usual Harvard stereotype. Actually, there is not one museum but many, each with its own exhibition halls and staff. A few exhibits from a few these museums are shown on this page...
Many an old Trib hand takes a dim view of the changes. One complaint is that during the Trib's belt-tightening close to 20 reporters have left its city staff alone, a one-third reduction. Some Trib staffers hold Brownie largely responsible. Although he has been in complete command only for a month, he has been running the paper's finances for more than a year, when he returned from Paris after putting the European edition of the Trib handsomely in the black...