Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Academy of Sciences last spring, Astronomer Hubble put the limit of the visible universe at 300,000,000 light-years from Earth (TIME, May 7).* Later he extended the limit to 400,000,000 lightyears. Last week he reported catching on a high-speed photographic plate the faint impression of a galaxy of stars 500,000,000 light-years away...
...Hubble is renowned for his discovery that the spectrum lines of distant nebulae are displaced toward the red end, indicating enormous speeds of recession away from Earth. The speeds of the most distant cannot be deduced in this manner, since the spectra are too faint to be analyzed. But it has been observed that speeds are closely proportional to distance, increasing about 1,000 miles per second for every 10,000,000 light-years of space. Few months ago Dr. Hubble measured the fastest nebular retreat at 24,000 miles per second. That one was 240,000,000 light-years...
Lawrence was a master, despite his faults, and Wilkie was at all events competent, as were Bonington, Elty, and Crome or Cotman, to name a few others. One must remember that competence is almost a pejorative term in criticism, if connotes the damnation of faint praise. Turner was once one of the gods of Fry's idolatry, so his remarks here, though just to this reviewer, may seem to some idol-demolition. Fry recovers, however, from any suggestion of mere pique, with his laudation of Constable: "Constable, like Gainsborough, belongs to the great European tradition of design." We are thus...
Although several comets are usually seen each year, none were discovered in 1934, according to Observatory officials. The new comet is described as "Fairly bright," but is too faint to be distinguished by the naked eye. It s of the tenth magnitude, and is located 90 degrees away from the sun and minus 51 degrees in declination. Although at present it may be observed only in the southern hemisphere and as far north as the Georgia-Florida boundary line, it is moving steadily northward at the rate of approximately one degree...
Lesser Lights. In the blinding light cast by a Man of the Year chosen by acclamation, other lights may seem faint by comparison, but calculated by their own candlepower, they are not to be ignored...