Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existence of God," Dean Matthews believes, "really needs no argument. I am personally very firmly convinced that every person has a direct assurance of God. Often this intuition is not attended to and remains a dim light. There are not actual atheists; a man becomes an atheist by reasoning himself into atheism out of a natural belief...
...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
...Rome, as delegate to the League of Nations, at the San Remo conference, in London, Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Berlin and on vacations in Venice. Lighthearted, sophisticated, well-bred, he laughed at the remarks of his German sweetheart, Lenchen, who was a good girl by her lights, which were occasionally dim ; at the practical jokes he played with U.S. Ambassador Hugh Gibson on the League of Nations (Varè invented an imaginary country, Zembla); at the grotesque reformers who flocked to Geneva with their crazy plans for saving Europe...
...stars twinkle steadily night after night. Some regularly fade away, then suddenly flare up again with undiminished brilliance. Others grow dim quickly, unpredictably, then gradually regain their former radiance. The latter type of variable star has long puzzled astronomers, since its spectrum at its dullest shows little change, indicates that no fundamental alteration has occurred. Prime example is R Coronae Borealis. Reappearance is slow, sometimes taking many months. Last week John O'Keefe of the Harvard Observatory published an explanation for the behavior of R Coronae Borealis in The Telescope...
...dim dark of early morning, long before the regular 10 o'clock opening hour, a Freshman who just couldn't wait to get started on his college career sneaked into Memorial Hall and signed his name--William Eustis--that interminable number of times that seem to be required, thus becoming the first official member of his class...