Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...professed in the past, of love for the game of football and loyalty to the athletic interests of Harvard? I mention the graduates because I know that a great many of them are anxious to get an expression of undergraduate sentiment on the matter. If there is a single, faint glimmer of hope for football at Harvard, it lies in an emphatic expression of opinion from a large number of graduates, both old and young. But as long as we who are in college seem indifferent - we who are the ones immediately affected by the Faculty's action...
...dwelt most fondly upon those who were dead. In a little book of criticisms, called "Appreciations," we find him coming nearer the present. In this book he speaks of people only, or almost only, to praise them. In spite of Pater's urbanity, we are sometimes conscious of a faint note of patronage in his criticism. The hyperaesthetic side of Pater has been skillfully satirized under
...electric lights, which seriously interfere with the observation of faint objects, prove an advantage in one way. They render visible faint clouds, which are carefully looked for every few minutes when the meridian photometer is in use. As the lights are below the clouds instead of above them, the latter become conspicuous even when too faint to be seen in the moonlight...
Certain observations at Cambridge are each year rendered more difficult. The introduction of electric lights, especially in the vicinity of the observatory, greatly interferes with the observation of faint objects. Additional trouble is anticipated from the proposed introduction of electric cars on Concord Avenue, which forms the southern boundary of the grounds of the observatory...
...reflected light to be of value we must have just the right conditions, we must have first a good mirror and secondly a trained observer. If either is wanting the light is of no value. If the mirror is poor, that is if the reflected light be too faint, the best observer can get no good results. Thus often in the troubles and perplexities of life, even those who know God best cannot distinguish His hand. On the other hand, if the mirror be perfect there is nothing told to one who is not a good observer. Thus while...