Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What Author Anthony Powell thinks of the publishing business is apparently symbolized by the enigmatic figure of T. T. Waring, one of those writers whose major talent is for adroit personal publicity, and who is the big purse winner in the spavined stable of literary hacks owned by the dim publishing house of Judkins & Judkins...
...Harvard's half of the ninth, however, the roof blew off Kindlestick Park. Needing three runs to tie the score and four to win. Harvard's chances seemed dim when Diehl flied to center, Miller singled and Sargent advanced him to second by grounding out to the first baseman. But Jim Mullen, pinch hitting for pitcher Dick Garibaldi, drove a deep single to right center, scoring Miller. Curly Combs followed this with a double to right, leaving men on second and third. When B.U.'s third baseman bobbled Bilodeau's hot grounder and threw wide to first, both of these...
...federal scrip for 990,000 acres of public land. He swapped the scrip for choice Wisconsin timberland, which eventually soared in value. When sold off, it netted the university almost $6,000,000. White meantime scoured Europe for top scholars, set high standards, and took such a dim view of football that he once vetoed a game in Cleveland with the edict: "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind...
...Siegman, associate professor of sacred Scripture, was ousted last year "for reasons of health" despite an 18-2 vote of protest by the faculty of sacred theology. Rumored reason: Siegman's probing scholarship irked Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, the apostolic delegate to the U.S., who also takes a dim view of Theologian Kung...
Synge's plot saves its surprises for the end. But what lingers behind is the recollection of all that brave, gorgeous language and one fine scene when Christy and Pegeen declare their love against a hillock of dune grass, with the dappling sunlight going dim and bright all the while behind the hurrying October clouds...