Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even in these renovated areas, much classification and labelling needs to be done. The casts of the marvelous steles found at Copan are barley visible in the gloom of the end of the third-floor hallway. The public is naturally only mystified by the great casts of which many are unidentified and none is explained by an easily legible descriptive essay...
...damp midday gloom of London's worst fog in seven years, prostitutes were dimly visible as they patrolled their familiar stations in Soho, Piccadilly and Paddington. The chilling smog also seeped through tightly closed windows into the House of Commons, where Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler was opening the second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at clearing those same girls off the sidewalks of London...
...picture is not all gloom, however. The most pleasant surprise this year has been shotputter Henry Abbot, who broke the University record his last time out with a 51 ft., 6 in. heave. "If anyone had predicted that Abbot would break any records at this time last year, we'd have had his head examined," McCurdy commented...
...gloom of the '57-'58 recession, many a U.S. railroad sought merger partners to strengthen its condition. For 14 months the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 roads, talked, thought and studied. Last week the Central flashed the red board. It announced that it was suspending the Pennsy merger talks until "three or four systems of nearly balanced economic strength in the East" could be studied. Conferences among smaller roads in Portland (Me.) and Cleveland (TIME, Dec. 1), said the Central's directors, indicate "a new climate among...
...Hollywood, looking at the statistics for a so-so year, managed to keep from dissolving in gloom. Only 216 pictures went into production during 1958, as, opposed to 297 in 1957, and movie-theater attendance dropped 7.6% from 1957. But theater owners cut their losses to 2.5%. Their method: raising admission prices...