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Word: dimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the dim view that University Hall may take of the Clubs, there is little likelihood that Harvard will ever officially abolish them. In the first place, the administration takes quite seriously Harvard's tradition of giving students free reign until they interfere with others...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER 22, 1958, BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON | Title: The Final Clubs: Little Bastions of Society In a University World that No Longer Cares | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Despite the dim view that University Hall may take of the Clubs, there is little likelihood that Harvard will ever officially abolish them. In the first place, the administration takes quite seriously Harvard's tradition of giving students free reign until they interfere with others...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Warning Flag? Both Russians bore out Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' press conference forecast that Geneva's prospects looked dim. Some Western experts, said Dulles, thought they knew why. Their theory; the long, friendly talks about nuclear-test inspection systems between U.S. and Russian scientists at Geneva last summer ''opened the eyes of the Soviet Union to the fact that our own knowledge was considerably greater than theirs about nuclear weapons. They realized that they were considerably behind in this matter, and therefore they lost interest in the suspension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Nuclear Tests Stop | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...charm of this book lies in Author Marceau's devotion to his extraordinary characters-a devotion that enables him to make them not merely funny but amazingly human as well. Haughty aristocrat, aping student, money-loving businessman, dim-witted girl-by the time Marceau has done with them, all have shed their comical trappings, and walk the world in the shape of broken hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragicomic Musketeers | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...your future's looking dim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: Flutist's Comeback | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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