Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needs a co-ordination of work already done or a groundwork on which to do some hurried building, will especially appreciate this opportunity. To the freshman as well, the course will offer an opportunity for making wise provision against a rainy day. To him divisionals still seem a dim and distant horror, a cloud no bigger than a man's hand". But the storm comes on space and the death-bed absolution furnished at great cost by tutoring bureaus is apt to be a sorry affair...
...dim vastness of a Belgian chateau, an 83-year-old woman, dying insane, is living in the memories of her resplendant past...
...well described in the columns of The New York World: " A Boy I cannot Hand Much to Is Henry Louis Mencken, who Is Sadly lacking in Respect For the Anointed and Elect; He has no Proper Reverence for A Congressman or Senator! Great Names that Time can never dim...
...from the dim recesses of the bookshelf of knowledge comes a work entitled The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, edited by F. H. Smith and published by the Macmillan Company in 1907. On page 206 of the seventh volume of this work appears the letter from Franklin to Mme. Brillon, called The Ephemera, written...
...often said that "they do things better in France." Certain it is that the Frenchman argues on all possible occasions on subjects which Americans avoid. The result is that while the Frenchman keeps his ideas sharp and clear, the Anglo-Saxon is apt to leave his thoughts in the dim background. There will be ample opportunity at Silver Bay to try the French method, not only with older men but also with delegates from a large number of other colleges. Anyone who is so firmly fixed in his faith that he has nothing to receive, or so strongly silent that...