Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leverett's towers glowed with a dim bleakness last night under a partial blackout imposed by John J. Conway, Master of the House. Conway's reason: some 30 of the lightbulbs set in the ceilings behind the windows have exploded over the past few days. Under the circumstances, Conway advised tower inhabitants to find some other sources of illumination. He did not prohibit candles...
...surface. "She's prune-faced already," says Richard Slater of G. T. Schjeldahl, Northfield, Minn., the company that made the balloon. When Echo turns deliberately about once in eight to ten minutes, flat places sometimes act as mirrors, making the sun's reflection momentarily brighter. Wrinkled places dim the reflection. The radio waves that are bounced off Echo show the same variations...
Because expense accounts are legal business deductions, it is the taxpayer who splits the check. "Lights would go dim along the Strip in Las Vegas," says Randall, "and chorus girls would be unemployed from New York to Los Angeles if it were not for that great modern invention, the tax deduction." Public indignation over expense-account abuses is rising, he says, and "may be the next spectacular issue for the politicians"-unless U.S. business sees the credit-card myth for what it really is and starts to put its own house in order...
...Companion. The first white dwarf was found when mid-19th century astronomers noticed that Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, wobbles slightly, and theorized that it revolves around another star too close and dim to be seen separately. Later astronomers, using more sophisticated telescopes to eliminate the glare, finally picked out the other star nestling close to Sirius, and gradually accumulated some surprising information about...
...each of which packaged together a great assortment of proteins and similar chemicals. This process may have been repeated billions of times in different places, generating during each repetition many billions of microspheres. Eventually, one of them happened to have in its membrane the proper chemical wherewithal for a dim sort of life. Once this spark was alight, the great parade of evolution, from bacteria up to man, was a natural consequence...