Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million in per-ton royalties, despite the additional Wi a ton Lewis won from the operators last October. Result: the fund's unexpended balance shrank from $99.5 million to $92 million. The fund's outlook, as more miners retire and union-mined coal output declines, is dim. There is small hope that a royalty increase will help, since any boost will shift more coal production to non-union mines. Non-union output jumped 5% last year, to 23% of U.S. production...
...American Can. They quit them to return to their eschatology and homiletics, form criticism and patristics at ten theological seminaries around the country; but before they left they compared notes on a summer spent in investigating contacts between the church and the working man. Contacts, they decided, are pretty dim...
Most societies, remarks Kinsey in an anthropological aside, have a double standard about marital fidelity. A few, though they take a dim view of a woman who strays openly, covertly condone her actions if she is discreet and her husband does not become, particularly disturbed. That, suggests Kinsey, is "the direction toward which American attitudes may be moving...
...candidates had signed up to run for the $40,000-a-year-job - generally regarded as the second-roughest executive post in the U.S.-The issues which divided the candidates, and the factions supporting them, were often just barely visible in the forest's dim light...
Similar stones, probably held in the hand and used as crude axes or hammers, have been found elsewhere in Africa, but they are always accompanied by other kinds of stone implements. Arambourg concluded that the stones he found were made by an extremely primitive "humanoid" whose dim wits had discovered only this one item of stone-working technology...