Word: dimout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the greatly grumbled-at East and West Coast dimout was making at least a few people happy. Things were so dark in Manhattan that young couples didn't have to go to the movies any more to do their necking-doorways on Fifth Avenue were dark enough...
...letter which you published Friday regarding compliance with "dimout" regulations is a very natural observation...
...measure to perfect the University's cooperation with the recently inaugurated dimout of the Atlantic Seaboard, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, has asked all students living at college to draw their shades when lights are burning in their room after dark...
Intended to reduce the sky-line glow which was considered a potential beacon for enemy submarines, the dimout had been widely criticized as inadequate, and Cambridge officials were said to have planned more drastic action here...
Describing dimout conditions in Cambridge as 99 percent complete, Major Ralph W. Robart, chief local air raid warden, said yesterday that "if this dimout effort is ineffective, the Army will be forced to order a full blackout for the duration...