Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west side of the foyer, in a grove of potted palms, the red-jacketed Marine Band blares martially. Young military aides ply softly up and down, keeping the line of guests moving decorously but swiftly into the State Dining Room, where the faint may refresh themselves with clear ice water from a mahogany sideboard...
...undertaking would give a good deal to be able to occupy our places as university undergraduates for a few days; for there are many of the thoughts of youth, psychological shifts of one sort or another, which come to these older men through the haze, be it ever so faint, of memory. And, though to age belongs wisdom, in youth there is a degree of sound instinct, together with the normal allotment of human nature...
...faint possibility of making the Union over to a lecture hall indicates that the apparatus of a dining hall may easily be superfluous...
Lampy does not usually strike the pose of a crusader. But Lampy did feel, God forgive him, at the time the Protest of the Masses Number was in contemplation that all was not right in the little world about him. For months on end he had heard the faint, polite voice of the Harvard CRIMSON weakly trying to reason things out. But the CRIMSON left so many vital things unsaid...
...such methods, about a thousand new variable stars have already been found in these Milky Way regions, mainly by Misses Boyd, Mohr, Swope, and Woods. Nearly all of these variables are very faint, and are situated at great distances...