Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nature and uses of money; still less towards comprehending the relations between gold and silver in the performance of that function. Until more is known about the cave of Machpelah than history has banded down, the statement that Abraham paid four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...
...that is that in their desire to keep it up the leaders fail to keep track of the game and frequently call for a cheer at the moment when the ball is put in play and when everyone is pre-occupied with seeing what happens. Obviously, the cheer is faint and does more harm than good. There can certainly be enough time for cheering during the game without detracting the attention of the spectators at the very moment when they are most interested...
...which contain the star is given and an examination of all the photographs of the region containing this star, sixty-two plates in all, taken between May 17,1889, and Mar. 5, 1895, shows that no trace of the star is visible, although on some of them stars as faint as the fourteenth magnitude are clearly seen. On nine plates, taken between April 8, and July 1, 1895, the star appears and its photographic brightness diminishes during that time from the eighth to the eleventh magnitude...
...advantages of the station at Arequipa, Peru, have been so pronounced that it will be maintained permanently, and the Bruce photographic telescope, the latest acquisition to the equipment of the observatory, will be sent there in the near future. This instrument has proved very successful in photographing stars too faint to be photographed by other instruments and thus enabling them to be studied...
...sixth Brown hit safely and stole second. A faint cheer came from the Harvard bench, but Brown was left on second. For Princeton, Thompson completed the circuit on Chandler's error. Reiter made second on Haskell's, Butler flied out, Easton got four balls, and both he and Reiter scored on Barrett's two-bagger...