Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control of all her affairs. One day little Denise came home from school to find her aunt's door tightly locked. "Your Aunt Jeanne was picked up by the cops again," explained Sylvie sadly. That night Denise went down to the cellar to get a washbasin. In the dim light she stepped on something soft. Sylvie said: "You must have stepped on an old pillow I threw down there." To a girl friend, Denise confided with horror that she had "dreamed" of a woman's foot growing out of the cellar floor...
...Angeles, Leo Harvey blamed the whole uproar on a smear campaign by "the vested interests [who] fear competition . . ." But the chances of ever getting the loan looked pretty dim...
Short-Term Uselessness. Why had the fund failed so dismally? The basic trouble was that in the dim and distant days of Bretton Woods, the world's leading economists foresaw no such serious dollar shortage as later developed. Instead, they visualized a series of sharp, short fluctuations in the trade balances of the participating nations-just temporary deficits resulting from a bad crop here, a bad tourist season there. Ailing nations could be tided over these rough spots with loans, though Congress stipulated that the loans could only be for short terms. Hence, when the long-term dollar crisis...
...total eclipse. Not until 1930, when French Astronomer Bernard Lyot built the first coronagraph, did anyone succeed in imitating the natural event. Astronomer Lyot put a small brass disk between the lenses of a simple telescope, cutting off direct sunlight and permitting him to focus the dim radiance of the corona and solar prominences upon a sheet of photographic film. It was a simple enough trick, but one that could not be carried off without superfine lenses, free of any imperfections and kept scrupulously clean. Even the scattered light from a few grains of dust would have ruined the pictures...
...method has been tried only in the laboratory. Among their test shots, the inventors have two pictures of a glowing filament covered by a dense filter that made it invisible to the naked eye. One picture, taken directly on a photographic plate, showed only a dim trace of the filament after a six-hour exposure. The other, taken with speeded-up electrons, showed the whole filament clearly after only four minutes...