Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never taken Chinese 10a at Harvard or read more than an occasional heading in the newspaper about how Uncle Sam was lending China lots of money as sort of a scare to Japan and Hitler. But he wasn't quite sure about how that worked except he had a faint suspicion we might not get the money back. He didn't know much about Chinese culture except for the few "Confucius Say's" that went around the country a couple of years ago. Every now and then they flashed some picture of Peiping being bombed on the screen...
...British war needs and available U. S. supplies-the long-range bombers, ships, field guns, machine guns, ammunition (estimated total cost: $500,000,000) that could be shipped as soon as the Lend-Lease Bill was signed. Beyond this immediate act lay a bigger project, of which only the faint outlines appeared in the press: the establishment of a "defense ministry" within the Cabinet...
...good deal of hoopla NBC announced that Champion Skier Torger Tokle had agreed to broadcast his sensations while jumping at Lake Placid. Earnestly an announcer described how he was being fitted out with a 15-lb. transmitter, a mike in a mask. Then Torger swished away. There was a faint crunch of snow and nothing more. The champion, it seemed, forgot to talk...
From Chicago, through no miles of sleet and snow, drove Manager Leon Perssion and one of the finest string quartets in the world-the Pro Arte. This quartet still calls Brussels its home, but only in a far, faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window...
This makes Dr. Paraskevopoulos' second independent discovery of a comet within the last five months. His first comet, in September 1940, was also discovered by Dr. Whipple of the College Observatory, and, though faint, is still observable in the southern...