Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...battleflag of America upon the fields of France is the outward manifestation of a new national consciousness, and an omen however faint, of the part that we may be called upon to play in the destinies of world powers...
...America to Europe" says much in its fourteen lines and closes with the memorable phrase: "And that to live at ease may be to die." Arthur Ficke has put into his "Irises" the sound of the "Passing water of the cool stream, Coming from afar," and leaves a faint impression of a passion for which the real Iris would be no solace. Augustus Lord's "By Autumn Seas" is a manly utterance on the old theme of world desolation and the comfort of "Love's dauntless cheer." Conrad Aiken has solzed perforce upon the poetry of the unpoetic...
Those of us who leave College this year look back with a faint smile, a smile even of regret, upon that sad period when large sums of money were extracted from scanty pockebooks, when active committees vied with one another in pursuing the poverty-stricken students, when the whole college glowed with enthusiasm over the vision of a new gymnasium...
...Beta Kappa men, aided for the second day by Herter, resorted to scholarly craft to win out. Their batting order was entirely changed to bring their heaviest hitters to the plate. Stoutly and bold-facially they upheld their action as legal, and Umpire Brown, who only occasionally showed faint glimmerings of baseball knowledge, allowed it. Crafty dealing, and its perpetrators, however, received their just reward. McIntosh ignominiously struck out, Herter could only touch Morris's remarkable delivery for an easy infield grounder on which he died at first, and the next man fanned. The Monthly-Advocate infield, consisting of Osborne...
...this seems damning with faint praise, the trouble is not so much with the Advocate as with the reviewer. For such work he, like all his colleagues, is too old. College papers are written by undergraduates to be read by undergraduates. Are not undergraduates the best people to review them? Any officer of the College, even "the young assistant," must have a point of view so different from that of undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth. Now we may all, like the middle-aged teller of Mr. Conrad's glorious...