Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep"? It seems most probable that Princeton is able to "love the high embowed roof, with antique pillars massy proof" just so long as the "storied windows rightly dight" do not east upon the student body too frequent "a dim religious light...
LOVE FOR LOVE-Two centuries and a half have not suffered to dim the lustre of Congreve's comic sophistication...
...restless track of the explorer has gone on beyond the ranges and has sought the dim horizon until West has merged with East and the vast wildernesses of the world have been travelled and chartered to man's satisfaction. The driving, nervous days of discovery are over--almost, but not quite, for the old spirit of exploration will not die until the last map is fully marked and the last continent travelled...
...which she left to world war veterans, agricultural students, and other worthy groups. Since her death, the country has suddenly become populated with the relations: fourty-nine cousins, no less, a niece, and, strangest of all, a daughter. The latter, one Ida Blankenburg, was supposedly the offspring of a dim and juvenile marriage in far off Texas which nobody thought much about at the time, such things being quite customary. Evidently Miss. Blankenburg almost forgot the matter herself, what with steer raising and one thing and another. After all its hard to remember off-hand whom one's father married...
...grandeur." The papers they carried were orders restraining Borglum from removing or damaging any of his models. They tried the door of the hut; it was locked. They peered through the window. Representatives of the press who came up at that moment peered over their shoulders. In the dim light, on the floor of the quiet interior, they beheld unmistakable fragments-the torn limbs, the broken heads of Generals Lee, Jackson and their gallant soldiers, bits of plaster, pieces of stone. They had come too late...