Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, on Tuesday morning, the stockholders entered the dim, musty assembly room of the Dollar Savings Bank Building, the issue seemed entirely clear. As old Chairman James A. Campbell took his seat under the faded portraits of Youngstown bankers long dead, it only remained to count the votes to discover if three weeks of campaigning had brought Cyrus Stephen Eaton enough strength to block the merger...
...soldier fashion the President picked an admirable but not outstanding personage, Dr. Heinrich Bruning, bachelor, scholar, onetime machine gunner (Iron Cross and wounds), who just three months ago forged up from a quite dim obscurity in the Catholic Centre Party to become its leader...
Then came three events that put last year's records in the dim past. Schwartz cleaved through the water in a hectic fifty in which less than a foot separated the five swimmers: Ruddy outlasted Clapp of Stanford and Captain Ault of Michigan in the longest race of the evening; and the powerful Kojac, in his favorite backstroke style, pulled himself along through the foam more than a body length ahead of all the rest in the 150-yard backstroke. Schwartz returned to the starting end for the second time and led the way again, this time in the century...
Diony Hall, daughter of Virginian pioneers, settles in what was still the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, marries her neighbor Berk Jarvis, goes with him the two-months' journey across the mountains into Kentuck, over the dim trail made by Explorer Daniel Boone. There they settle at Harrod's Fort, one of the three white settlements in the country. No one dared live outside the stockade: the Indians, hostile in their own right, were also encouraged by the British, who paid a bounty for Yankee prisoners, Yankee scalps, brought to Detroit. Once Diony and her mother-in-law wandered...
...temples are shaved for one electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts rebellion occurs. While machine guns clatter and sirens whine outside, the most desperate of the rebels threatens to shoot hostages in cold blood if means of escape are not granted. They...