Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many thought they heard a faint warning when the Bureau of the Census announced that employment had fallen off by 700,000 jobs since December, and that another 2,000,000 people were working less than full time. Actually, this sounded worse than it was. January employment is always less than December's, when the Christmas trade is glowing; 351,000 more were in jobs than were working in January 1948. Wholesale food prices were also dropping sharply-the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index was the lowest since...
...Carnegie Hall. He had warned that he was "going to take his engine apart and put it together again; but it would not be a new engine." Last month, when he had cranked it up again in San Francisco, listeners and critics thought at first they heard a faint whirring and grinding of gears. Heifetz himself, his usual platform poker face masking his nervousness, found it "hard to get going again." But by the time he had plucked and bowed Bach and Mozart across the U.S., Manhattan fiddle-fans found that the old Heifetz engine was still hard to beat...
That night TV went to the Inaugural Ball, reported drama in the hush before the President's entrance, when a sea of faces turned toward the presidential box and the only sound was the faint worrying of a guitar's strings as the Marine Band waited to strike up Hail to the Chief...
These were the faint stirrings of peace at the grass roots. Did it mean that peace would flourish in Palestine? Perhaps...
Editors Morley & Everett had hoped that their 1937 edition would serve until 1960. "But by 1940 it was plain that enlargement was already desirable. Man in his Penultimate War was saying words that had to be recorded." Voices that had seemed too faint in the '30s (Winston Churchill was not even included) were now fairly screaming for attention. Result: the editors have left Bartlett unchanged from Poet Caedmon (A.D. 670) to Poet Rudyard Kipling, but from there on nobody will recognize the old household...