Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really such a traditionally wise old bird, whether it could find its way home in the dark-whether, in fact, it was all it was cracked up to be. Dr. Dice built a light-tight "reaction room." There was a perch near the top and a dim, adjustable light. He put a dead mouse on the sand-covered floor, shut an owl inside, and waited for results...
...Owls cannot see in total darkness. Unlike bats, which navigate by the echoes of their own high-pitched squeaks, owls need some light, but not much. Light as dim as a single candle burning nearly half a mile away was bright enough for a barred owl to find his mouse. Barn owls needed slightly more. The floor of a thick forest on an overcast, moonless night is considerably darker-too dark for an owl to get around in and see what he's up to. Under such murky conditions, Dr. Dice's experiments indicated, an owl flies...
...Dim-lit, shadowy, full of menace and unimaginable chances, stretched all around my door the many-peopled streets. I could hear, ominous and muffled, the tides of traffic, sounding multitudinously along their ways. Was I equipped for the navigation of those waters, armed and ready to adventure out into that dangerous world again...
Because U.S. headquarters takes a dim view of all feudalistic imagery, no matter how lofty the castle, this and four equally affecting stanzas were banned in Japan last week. The news was likely to be calamitous only among Japanese schoolgirls, who favor the special love and lavender of Kojo no Tsuki ("Moonlight on the Ruined Castle") above all other popular songs...
...apartment for a long weekend of solitary drinking. His brother, who supports him and knows his drinking habits, has left him no money, no whiskey and no credit with any neighborhood bar or liquor store. Milland, a gentlemanly alcoholic given to reciting from Shakespeare in cultured tones, leaves his dim, disordered room only to cadge money or drinks to get him through his marathon bender...