Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convince housewives to buy soap, but how to make them addicts of a particular brand. Manufacturers have appealed, variously, to vanity, comfort, whimsy. To the Palmolive-Peet Company, vanity appears the chief factor in the public's soap-buying. Women are urged to "keep that schoolgirl complexion." A faint odor of promiscuity hangs over the seductive call of Woodbury's Facial Soap-"A Skin You Love to Touch." But the forthrightness of the Woodbury laboratories (N. Y.), is reestablished by the picture of Founder John H. Woodbury, minus neck,* appearing on each package...
...grassy hills of Jugoslavia, shepherds have lounged for centuries, watching the smoke curl up from far-away villages and amusing themselves with strange, melancholy songs, gentle and careless as their flocks. To peasants who have often heard these songs, sounding far away and faint through a whole summer night or winding along the high paths in the twilight, they remain the most pervasive of all music. One such peasant is famed Michael Idvorsky Pupin, who long ago immigrated to the U. S. to become an electrical engineer and professor of mechanics (Columbia). He, with Croatian Violinist Zlatko Balokovic, last year...
...first new mounting for the Harvard telescopes in the south was shipped some months ago and is now being installed. It was procured for the 10-inch Metcalf triplet, an instrument specially suitable for studies of the faint Milky Way variable stars. The next new mounting to go south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year...
Last week precisely the crazed medieval orgy of Devildom described above was reproduced in modern Hamburg when rust ate through a commonplace-looking tank and something began to escape with a faint hiss. The murderous invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have...
...feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding this accusation, and at the same time are putting a damper on any analogy, faint though it may be, to Sacco and Vanzetti and other so called victims of prejudice...