Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faint Heart Ne'er Won Fair Lady, R. T. Whitehouse...
...Common Marriage" is a thoughtful character study and story of that not uncommon species of man who fancies himself in love with a pretty woman because he takes pleasure in the faint evasive perfume of her hair, in being on the same divan with her, in leaning against the same cushions, and in watching her quick breathing,-who goes a step farther and becomes engaged to her, recognizing his mistake, yet incapable of sufficient will-power and courage to make a clean breast of it and effectually to relieve the entanglement,-who takes the final step and becomes her husband...
...Aper has given a photographic telescope 8 inches per hour for use in Cambridge, where 2.157 photographs have been taken making a chart of the sky from the north pole to 20 degrees south of the equator. Spectrit of stars as faint as the tenth magnitude have been obtained and umerous is important results obtained. The most interesting result has been the discovery by Miss Maury of a second star, Beta Aurigael, which is shown by the doubling of the lines in its spectrum at regular intervals to be a close binary, revolving once in about four days. The study...