Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fake a hallmark; but by digging up a wormy act he appeared in 40 years ago, Moore has managed to do it. Billy Gaxton has a better skit, which is still not good enough. Hildegarde, the darling of the supper clubs, sings songs that badly need highballs and dim lights, and for a fully grown girl acts entirely too cute. Only headliners who deserve to be headlined are the Hartmans, whose take-offs on ball room dancing are familiar to many, but still funny to most...
...light shone dim. Its harbor was like a grotesquely huge rice paddy, so many were the masts sticking up from its brown water. The British bank vaults were full, not of documents and specie, but of prisoners of war. Japanese troops dismantled barbed-wire, emptied sandbags, tidied up collapsed walls...
...radios last week. Most of it was Axis concoctions; some of it was Allied counter-propaganda. Behind the radio barrage fell a blizzard of newspaper squibs, handbills, pamphlets, posters. In free countries men speculated aloud with laughter and curses; in Europe they whispered behind their hands in dim cafes and shuttered homes. It was a big week in the battle of babble...
...clattering chaos of emptiness. Somewhere ahead in the vague, formless distance a chair loomed up, sunk out of sight, bobbed up again, and finally disappeared. As he was subconsciously wondering where it had gone, the Vagabond felt something hard and unyielding below him; looking down, he made out the dim outlines of the chair, its arms surrounding him familiarly. That's where it is, his mind said to itself automatically, and as the walls bowed and nodded and pirrouetted their assent, Vag tried to pull himself together...
...small section of sky on the plate without fuzzing and distortion. In the Schmidt camera, however, the light rays pass through a concave-convex lens which aims them at the mirror at such angles that they are reflected upon the plate in sharp focus (see diagram). Photographs of distant, dim nebulae formerly required exposures of 50 hours-five hours a night for ten nights. Now they can be made in a single night...