Word: fainter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...daily papers have contained startling accounts of Yale's strength, while by reason of the strict secrecy to which all the Harvard players have been bound, no rumors of wonderful plays, such as were current last year, have been heard. And so already a few of the fainter hearted have begun to tell their friends confidentially that Harvard has not a ghost of a chance...
...first lecture we defined a note as a single sound having distinct pitch. It has long been known that in some notes such as those of the voice and stringed instruments, what we call the pitch of the note is accompanied by a number of higher and fainter pitches. These are called overtones. The researches of Helmboltz have proved that this is not the exceptional but the common case and that comparatively few instruments (the tuning fork being one) give notes in which the pitch we principally notice is the only one apparent to closer scrutiny. According to his theory...