Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another part of its life's energy in the temples of Capital. Some of the people have become weaker; others have grown richer. In the subway are those who have become weaker. The color of their faces is greyish, their hands are hanging down weakly, their eyes are dim. . . . Only their jaws are moving, submissively, evenly, without joy or animation. . . . What are they trying to find in this miserable, degrading chewing? . . . When an infant, exhausted from hunger and crying, is pathetically moving its dull eyes, and there is no milk in the mother's breasts...
Heroine Rachel was a foundling with flame-colored hair, her origin dim. All she knew was that she had been rescued as a little girl by old Baruch. a sniveling Jewish antique-dealer, and brought to the Rumanian town where he set up his curiosity shop. Hidden away in a house behind the shop, her existence unsuspected by the townsfolk, Rachel grew to womanhood...
...experiments. The plan of the experiments has been to inject the gas into the room in which the subject was seated and then to apply a number of driving tests which have been worked out by DeSilva. These tests include brake reaction, depth perception, the ability to see dim objects at the side of a bright light, the ability to perceive the approach or recession of objects, and accuracy of steering...
Historical crises usually bring on an avalanche of hasty interpretations, dim eyewitness accounts that last no longer than the event that gave rise to them. Less perishable than most works of its type, John Langdon-Davies' 275-page Behind the Spanish Barricades is a literary hybrid, partly a work of political journalism, intelligent and humane but offering no sensationally new information, partly a warm and colorful discussion of peaceful Spanish ways which the present tragedy makes poignant and distressing...
There is one moment of real magic when Larry is singing So Do I, best of the John Burke-Arthur Johnston ballads, in a dim courtyard, strumming his lute, while Patsy revolves around him in a grotesquely graceful, childish dance. Screenwriter Jo Swerling, however, quickly dropped development of the Pennies from Heaven idea. He set his characters to making a haunted house into a night club, then switched to a carnival background, then to an orphan asylum. The thread on which the latter episodes are strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy...