Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dim View...
Three University scientists can now demonstrate in a test tube how the eye sees in dim light, a meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists will be told today...
Dark adaptation, the process whereby the eye slowly becomes more sensitive to dim light, is due to this synthesis of the four substances in rhodopsin...
...government of India took a dim view of one of its major maharajas, the wealthy Gaekwar of Baroda. Charging, among other things, that he was promoting princely rebellion against the republic, and had not accounted for almost $5,000,000 of his princely state funds, the government ordered the Gaekwar stripped of all royal titles, plus his half-million-dollar annual pension (leaving him with an annual income estimated as high as $8,000,000). The former ruler of a princedom of 8,000 square miles and some 3,000,000 subjects has a month in which to appeal...
Keen-eyed readers may have spotted something of Jack's predicament when they read his story. The accompanying Air Force picture showed the dim outline of his hunched shoulders and stooped head as the F-94, afterburner blasting, roared skyward. "No matter," he said later, "I fold easy...