Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troubled him so he changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about his neck. Then he had hanged himself by a thong under his armpits, but the thong broke and he fractured his ankle. Then he buried himself to the waist in earth. Faint though he was, God still would not come. That taught him humility...
Within the last few years the spectra of more than 75,000 faint stars have been classified in the star clouds of the Milky Way by Miss Cannon and her assistants at the Harvard Observatory. She has classified altogether more than 300,000 stars, and the resulting catalogue is one of the fundamental collections of data for astronomers...
...Vagabond straightens up the litter of papers which bestrew his desk, tills his briar with a fresh load of Cake Box and settles back to watch the smoke sail up until the first pale faint pulse of dawn beats into the eastern...
...teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport; but M. A. C. has had teams that could not even be dismissed with the epithet of faint praise "good small college outfits...
...chin is softened by the fact that it tops a neck like that of a warbling thrush or bullfrog. But the mustache is close-clipped, businesslike, and the hard, unflickering hazel eyes keep their level aim behind efficient, rimless glasses. Appropriately L'Americain is of mixed blood, with a faint ancestral dash of German...