Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metagalactic cloud" appeared on the Harvard plates in the course of a survey that is recording all galaxies in the sky brighter than the 18th magnitude. The system first was signaled out as a "major irregularity" in he distribution of faint galaxies in the southern sky, Dr.Shapley said...
Upon closer examination the "Irregularity" revalued itself as a great stream of these tremendous "universes," which are faint only because of their great distance. Each of the "universes" is comparable to our won Milky Way, which has an extreme diameter of more than a hundred thousand light years and a population of hundred billion stars...
...House met more frequently, no more effectively. Its week's work was to pass, over faint cries for Economy, a $2,500,000 bill for Federal aid to reforesting farmers...
...college students of a new, powerful but poisonous brain stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pepper-up," "pep pills...
John Van Druten's screen play, Richard Thorpe's direction and a more flexible medium combine to remove the faint creakiness that Night Must Fall had on the stage, make it a powerfully striking example of how a mood of horror can be created by understatement. Good shot: Olivia courteously giving Danny the price tag which she has just removed from the shawl he is presenting to Mrs. Bramson as an heirloom, from his mother...