Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans for the first 2 miles were bunched about 5 yards behind the Englishmen. Just before the end of the second mile, little Clark [H.B. of Harvard], who had been pluckily sticking with the leaders, dropped on the track in a faint. Smith of Oxford was soon forced to retire owing to cramps, and the last mile was fought between Workman and Palmer (Y). Workman outran Palmer in the last 1/3 mile, to win amid the wildest imaginable enthusiasm...
Leverett House Superintendent William P. Hinton said that he first saw the girls just inside F-entry, and that one of them appeared to be about to faint. He assisted them across DeWolfe Street to the Common Room, located in C-entry...
Rick's Cafe Americain, whose proprietor wears a white dinner jacket, speaks with a faint lisp, and drinks a great deal when unhappy, sports an odd assortment of minor characters; they are bit parts, from which the actors have squeezed everything. Fat Sidney Greenstreet, with fez, is Farrari, the jovial "leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca." Peter Lorre is a funny, intense worm who sells blackmarket visas to refugees stranded in the unoccupied French city; the producers could afford to lead him off screaming after fifteen minutes: but in that time he created a lasting figure...
Comet Arend-Roland was discovered last Nov. 8 by S. Arend and G. Roland of the Royal Observatory at Uccle. Belgium. At that time it was a faint, hazy object, much too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers studied its motion and decided that it would pass within 30 million miles of the sun. Heading for outer space again, it will come within about 52 million miles of the earth on April...
Outdoor Theater. Financed by Britain's Ministry of Works, Hope-Taylor excavated the site with prodigious care. He skinned off the topsoil and found faint color changes that showed where timber had rotted. He also found a few foundation stones and many traces of holes where posts had been set in the earth. Working from these clues, Hope-Taylor concluded that the wedge-shaped area had been the site of a crude, roofless, theaterlike structure filled with wooden benches. Facing the benches was a dais protected from the weather by a screen of wickerwork daubed with clay. From this...