Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...birds twittered, Harvard headed for the river. No town-gown tangles marred the tranquil scene. Elections continued with '45 choosing its class officers just two years ahead of time. As exams approached students were leaving Harvard at the rate of more than 15 a week; prospects looked dim for the civilian college...
With the V-1, V-7, V-12, and so on, group the only large bunch of College men to return in uniform, prospects looked dim, but life went on. Final exams struck. Commencement came with Harvard's only honorary degree for the year going to Joseph Clark Grew '02; in attendance were 4000 service men who received certificates of training from the University...
This was not one of Churchill's greatest speeches, though any other orator might well have envied it. His courage and his eloquence shine brightest in adversity. When he first appeared before Congress, on Dec. 26, 1941, Allied prospects were dim and the U.S. was reeling under the first shock of war. Then, speaking from manuscript, he tingled flesh and tightened throats with the indomitable defiance of his ringing phrases...
Sirs: Your recent discussion of R.A.F. expressions (TIME, March 22) was read here with much interest, especially by our friends in that organization. Americans regret, however, that you omitted reference to one RAF-ism that we take an extremely dim view of: "U.S." as an abbreviation for "unserviceable." We are browned off by it, and hope it will...
Brewing in the realm of dim possibility is a series of six epochal jazz concerts, under the title of "Cavalcade of Jazz." When and where and how, nobody knows, but one of the biggest agencies in the country is handling the affair, and after the success of the Ellington and Kirby concerts, such a grandiose idea may bear solid fruit...