Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peons regarded Governor Gore as simpatico because he was a Catholic and had nine children. But when he legalized cockfighting, faint were the huzzahs for putting a legal face on an open practice. His proposals that landed estates be subdivided into small farms, that the legal interest rate be reduced from 12% to 8% infuriated the island's monied classes. The students rebelled when he appointed an unschooled trustee to the University of Puerto Rico's board. The politicos rebelled when he asked appointees for undated resignations in advance. Having fallen into every political pitfall the Legislative opposition...
...course in modern German literature, is the answer to a dilettante's prayer, to the man who would like a little foreign culture as a side dish, but nothing heavy. Like many whole courses divisible at the instructor's pleasure, its unity is sketchy, consisting mainly in a faint flavor of historical and literary continuity cemented by the bond of the German language...
...climax at this point by the playing of taps by the West Point bugler stationed at the bottom of Section 46. After five seconds of silence the echo will be taken up by a Harvard bugler ensconced on the topmost rampart of the bowl. When the last faint strain of the echo has been wafted away on the breeze, a one-minute hush will fall over the assembled crowd and a silent tribute paid to those who gave their lives in the Great...
Over the side to the rescue swung a boat crew. They got a line around the beast and hoisted him to the Scatarie's deck, sprawling and bedraggled. His pulse was faint and he seemed near death from exhaustion. Piling rugs and blankets on him. the officers took turns giving him artificial respiration, pressing down on his broad ribs with their hands & knees. Slowly the moose revived, began bellowing and thrashing. The Scatarie's crew lashed him stoutly, carried him in shore and. tying a metal tag to one antler, lowered him over the side to go crashing...
...hours in the effort. When next he appeared at the scene of his labors, he was told that there was not as much poison as had been counted on, and that he was to remove all the insect deterrent that he had just put in the boxes. With a faint feeling of futility, he followed out these orders, devouring another ten hours, and being credited accordingly. Such things as these, we feel, take part of the glamour from the sense of-being engaged on a scientific work of value...