Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation. The illumination, unlike that of an ordinary dim light, is confined to the reading surface, will light a 36-sq-in. map or photograph inside the envelope, but cannot be seen by an attacking plane...
Even the Houses, which they would not normally enter until their Sophomore year, have altered. Strict evening dim-outs and practice air raid alarms will harry their nocturnal activities. If they follow a recently reported trend they will drink more beer than Scotch and have fewer, but more potent parties...
...There was nothing about the Eisenhower tradition to suggest this choice [of being a soldier]. In the dim past the Eisenhowers were Swiss...
...pattern had changed; but the spirit was the same. The bells in the tall church spires would peal out across the land; the greetings, the hand clasps would be more heartfelt than ever. It would take more than a year of global war to dim out American good will...
Beginning this morning, the Crimson--will publish the official hour that dim-out regulations must be observed for that evening. From now on, the announcement will be found in a black face box in the Notice Column...