Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editorial Foreword, commencing the magazine, deserves its leading position, As its title, "Gnothi Seauton," would lead one to fear, it has a faint aura of uplift and exhortation clinging to its verbal draperies. But this aura is indeed too faint to bother any but the most far-fetched nuanciren; if one disregard it, the discussion appears as an apt and thoughtful one. It is arranged around two quotations from Emerson: "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," and also, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." These...
...these stunts." [He is 36.] Ill when he took off from Lympne, Eng land, Sir Charles suffered from lack of sleep. Typical excerpts from his log : 'Feel pretty sick. Had worst scare when forced to descend to 200 feet be cause I thought I was fainting. . . . Pos-sibly [tailwinds] are blowing higher up but am afraid to go up lest, feeling suddenly faint, I might be unable to reach the ground before passing...
...pair of Van Bret ancestors. Professor George Pierce Baker taught Playwright McFadden the dramatic tricks with which to make such melodrama, ludicrous in bald outline, almost credible. Audiences appear to enjoy Double Door more than anything they have seen so far this season an approval which is nevertheless faint praise...
...chambers under Memorial's clock. Suddenly there came a knocking from the depths, rap, rap, rap, thrice it came, and the distant corner of the room, illuminated only by the firelight, glowed with a greenish phosphorescence. Startled, the Vagabond discerned a figure standing there, limned in the faint, emerald light. Its coat was of gabardine, its trousers of flannel, from its eyes came the pinkish reflection of the midnight oil, on its checks were shadowed the black pouches of overwork. Before the figure stood a woman: "Why, then, 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. What need we fear...
...front and Lorna Whittelsey was third, a good quarter-mile behind Edgartown. By making up that quarter-mile- largely because the Edgartown had somehow picked up a piece of driftwood with her keel-Lorna Whittelsey kept her chance alive but it was a chance as faint as the breeze that had given it to her. In the sixth race, Ruth Sears would have had to miss the one point a boat gets for finishing to lose the championship. Instead, while Lorna Whittelsey was winning and hoping, Miss Sears coasted cautiously around the course for a fourth place...