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Word: dimness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitable "Wintergreen," whose arranger, Leroy Anderson '29, was on hand to acknowledge the applause. Also to be commended was the Second Harvard Medley, a modernistic first class arrangement by John Finnegan '47. It all added up to an afternoon well spent, and cooped up though it was in the dim recesses of Sanders Theater, yesterday's concert made the halves of next fall's football games all the more eagerly awaited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Last Wishes. On this dim morning last week, Yoshiko rose and calmly put on her grey, cotton-padded prison uniform. Six guards led her into the large vegetable garden in the rear of the prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foolish Elder Brother | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Form books take a dim view of local chances for individual honors in the marathon. Aside from Joe Verduer of LaSalle, world champion in the breaststroke, and diver Norm Sper of North Carolina, all the laurels seem destined to fall on the brows of the capable Elis, who will bring up the same group of experts that trampled Crimson hopes last week by a 62-13 tally...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Top Eastern Swimmers Compete in Pool Today | 3/19/1948 | See Source »

Economically, the outlook was dim. Food shortages would reach a crisis point by May. Last week, strikes protesting food shortages flared briefly in Vienna factories. The Reds agitated to prolong the strikes, circulated an ominous rumor among the workers: "Watch your step. Austria's next, and you have to account for yourself when the Communists take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Der Optimist's Demise | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...image is necessarily dim. Unitary man, conceiving himself a part of nature, rejoices in it, and gives himself unhesitatingly to life, with no thought of the survival of his own immortal soul. Of Christianity, humanism, and Marxism, he automatically preserves whatever is proper to his nature. When Author Whyte wrote the book he thought that Russia had perhaps gone farthest in the direction of a unitary society. Since that time, he says in the preface, he has concluded differently: "World order implies a unity tolerant of diversity; truth, justice, and the welfare of man depend on individuals with the courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unitary Man | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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