Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost in the hollowness of stone. People are away at the Cape or in the mountains. Between the sheds the Owl lies panting little spirals of smoke in anticipation of the long run past weary towns, isolated farm-houses pallid in the moonlight, black water sleeping in the dim aisles of forests, down through Connecticut, past exclusive suburbs, through Harlem tenaments under Park Avenue into the awakening city, cool in the gray and pink of dawn...
Over the clipped lawn of Britain's famed Royal Military College at Sandhurst where many a royal scion, British, Spanish, Asiatic and Balkan has learned the difficult art of the "slow march," 50 dim, sweating figures executed a strange maneuver one midnight last week. Symbols of R. M. C.'s 134 years of crack officer-breeding are eight ponderous brass cannon whose snouts once faced the British at Waterloo, now yawn harmlessly on Sandhurst's lawn. The 50 dim figures scuttled toward them like ants toward dead beetles. The raiders' leader deployed his men, half...
Prospector Near Romeo, Mich., J. W. Fowler, 73, near-blind pauper worn from a lifetime of prospecting for gold, was informed that a $15,000 legacy had been awaiting him for 70 years. Asked what he would do with his money, Prospector Fowler's dim eyes gleamed. Said he: "I know of a wonderful mining country in Canada where a man can make a fortune...
...color. Such light is useful in highway illumination because it reveals the details of objects at low levels of illumination, casts almost no shadow. The yellow glow of the sodium eliminates the offensive glare of white light, and, although the average motorist would probably find the bulb dim at first sight, it actually gives three to four times more light than the ordinary street lamp. The Philips bulb is credited with increasing seeing power at night from 12 to 20 times. Already installed in a dozen places in Holland, England, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway, it has lighted highways so brightly...
After midnight, when the fourth floor guard had passed the collection of the late Col. Michael Friedsam. the lurking thieves walked silently up into the dim-lit gallery. Swiftly & neatly they unhung ten famed paintings, turned them over, knifed out the wooden panels from the back, removed the canvases on their stretchers. They unrolled a 70-ft. length of heavy sash rope, tied one end to a newel post on the fourth floor landing, dropped the other out a window. There was no moon...