Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That spot of brilliance seemed to dim the fresh lake and vermilion on the adjoining Waterloo Bridge. Constable snorted to a friend: "Turner has been here and fired a gun!" Two days later, Turner deftly turned the impromptu daub into a red buoy that can still be seen floating on his grey...
Hundreds of years passed before they found Him-"an old man sawing wood" by the light of a dim lantern. "We are the life which you have brought forth," said the deputies. "We are all the living who have struggled and struggled, who have suffered and suffered, who have doubted and believed . . . What have you meant by us?" God "passed his hand through his lank gray hair" and answered meekly: "I am a simple man." "We can see that," said the deputies indignantly...
...spire of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall, the small, elfin man with the face like a melancholy Harpo Marx, was having his first one-man show...
From its vantage point at one of the myriad corners of a shrinking "hub," the CRIMSON has an excellent view of occurrences both in its own backyard and in the world at large. During the year, its editors, by taking a long view of the former and a dim view of the latter, comment on both. For the benefit of alumni and anyone else who may be interested, it presents here the high points of its year's editorial policies...
Round the Earth. He followed the ship's outline up the dim chamber. The hull, a shipshaped cavity carved out of the bedrock, appeared to be about 125 ft. long and 17 ft. wide. Its six wooden decks were somewhat shrunken away from the stone, and so. El Malakh could see down and count them. The wood seemed in fine condition, as if the painters had just finished their job. There were no cobwebs, which is a sign that the chamber's gypsum seal had never been broken. If the industrious graverobbers of ancient Egypt had really missed...