Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thesis that every object not at Absolute Zero (-459.4° F.) radiates heat-like infra-red rays. A two-foot, concave, silvered glass mirror in the fog-eye collects infra-red radiations of objects, focuses the rays on a sensitive thermocouple which translates the infra red rays into faint currents of electricity. A compact amplifier which Physicist Edward Elway Free built for Commander Macneil, builds up the fog-eye's currents until they are strong enough to turn on warning lights, ring a gong. The fog-eye can detect differences of temperature of one-fifty-thousandth of a degree...
...Coney Island, Joseph Tortora, 33, gorged himself with antipasto and spaghetti, rose from the table, made a sweeping gesture of satisfaction, slipped on a string of spaghetti, upset the table, broke the spaghetti dish, fell into the debris, gashed himself deeply, went to the hospital faint from loss of blood...
...Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory on June...
...night Timothy, other Herrick cat, also disappeared. Few hours later the anxious family was awakened by a faint, insistent mewing. Mr. Herrick traced the cries to the backyard of his next-door neighbor, Broker John Parkinson Jr. Pushing aside a loose fence paling, he beheld a specially-designed cat trap containing Timothy and the remains of some stale fish...
...Slipher let the strange, faint light sift through spectroscopes. After 100-hr. exposures he caught blue and violet bands in his spectrographs. Other exposures showed red light in "surprising strength." More recent observations demonstrate that zodiacal light contains the entire spectrum from red to violet. The assumption is that "the strange light originates at some distance above the Earth's surface, in a layer of considerable thickness. The Earth's atmosphere is playing a considerable role in the production of these radiations." The light seems to be a transformation of sunlight (or starlight) rather than a reflection...