Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present at least, most of the world's leading economists, money managers and financiers believe that this golden future, however desirable in theory, is nearly impossible to achieve in practice. After De Gaulle's press conference, British and West German government leaders said that they took a dim view of a return to the gold standard. The U.S. Treasury declared that the scheme would produce economic warfare: nations would demand that their foreign debtors pay off fully and immediately in gold-and many countries would not have enough gold to go around. Many nations would then have...
...means surrendering to a Rockefeller man. The bland but brilliantly successful boss of the Republican Party in Ohio, Bliss had stayed out of the convention wrangling between moderates and conservatives last summer, then had worked loyally for Candidate Goldwater, though from the start he took a dim view of Barry's chances and of the way he campaigned. In Bliss, the Republicans finally have what they desperately need: a chairman who is a superb technician, acceptable to all wings of the party, and less interested in ideology than in electing Republicans. Says he: "My philosophy is that...
...Dim Stars. Confusion about quasars began nearly 20 years ago when radio telescopes first found concentrated sources of powerful radio waves at unexpected points in the sky. Some of these sources turned out to be well-known objects such as galaxies, but others were not so easy to identify. At the spots where the radio waves came from, optical telescopes could find nothing except what appeared to be dim stars...
Blue Birth. The confusion has increased steadily. Dr. Allen R. Sandage of Mt. Wilson and Palomar reported that a radio source, 3C-2, which was photographed as a dim reddish object only two years ago by the University of Minnesota observatory, has shown up in recent Palomar pictures four times as brilliant as before, but rich in blue light. It seems as if 3C-2 has turned into a quasar, giving a vast increase in shortwave radiation. But no one can imagine a process that could kindle such an outburst in so short a time...
...judges faced with the problem of defining the "dim and uncertain" line between obscenity and constitutionally protected free expression, the Supreme Court has painfully worked out a combination of three tests...