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Word: dimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adventist authorities took a dim view of Richards' radio program at first. But by 1937 it was going so well that Pacific Coast officials of the church urged him to put the Voice on a coast network. In 1942, with the whole church behind him, Richards began preaching on a national hookup (Mutual), and the next year began to line up foreign stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Just Wait, Brother | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Dim and Dull. Mystery and myth have surrounded the home life and sex habits of the possum through four centuries. Now, in a new book called Possum (University of Texas Press; $6), complete with elaborate recipes for possum and 'taters, Dr. Carl G. Hartman, "pioneer possum embryologist and accoucheur," tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monstrous Beaste | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...says Dr. Hartman, is a congenital moron. In its tiny skull there is room for only a meager brain. Fertility, not intelligence, is the reason for its survival. Its popping, jet-black eyes are all pupil and ought to be sharp at night, but even in daylight they are dim and dull. Only its hearing is keen (its thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill, using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monstrous Beaste | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...exposition are very closely related in one field, that of ideology. The impression glossed from his book is that Russian opposition helds aim far closer to those of the 1917 Revolution than to the ideals of the West. (I realize that the New York Times reviewer took a dim view of this section, but his review seemed to me two-thirds proving his familiarity with the subject, and one-third dogmatic and substantiated denunciations of Fischer's thesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Phantom Revolt | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...more different. Electra, with her brother Orestes, is all clenched purpose and will. Indeed, despite the language barrier, last week's production particularly brought home what fierce, barbaric feeling is channeled by Sophocles' classic art. From the moment the curtains parted to reveal, on a bare, dim-lit stage, the bodingly severe entrance to the palace of Atreus, there was the sense of something ancient, awesome, implacable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Greeks Bearing Gifts | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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