Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awards are to: Bartholomeus J. Bok to determine the radial velocities of faint stars; Samuel H. Cross to prepare for publication a translation of the Laurentian Chronicle, a history of the Principality of Kiev, and a volume of memorial essays on A. S. Pushkin...
Occasionally Yehudi's playing showed faint signs of fatigue, of a transitional stage in his musical development. But the Menuhin parents still hold first place as the wisest of prodigy guides. On tour they kept the family together for all of the 17 months, refused invitations lest the children should be influenced by hearing too much praise. Next week they will move to their ranch in California, remain in retirement for two years while Yehudi has time to rest, study, develop into manhood. If Mother Menuhin has her way, Hephzibah will never have an intensive public career...
...believe that Mrs. Ruxton, of whose morals as a waitress he was particularly well aware, was now carrying on with a young lawyer in the Town Clerk's office. Therefore Dr. Ruxton encircled his wife's neck with strong, jealous fingers and, as her screams became faint gurgles and she died of strangulation, the Mohammedan looked up to find staring at him in petrified horror the pretty nurse of his three small children, Mary Jane Rogerson...
Down toward the base of the X-chromosome is a sudden bulge followed by a gradual tapering to normal diameter. This is the "turnip segment." It contains, first, a heavy band in two segments, then a faint dotted line, a stronger dotted line, a diffuse double line, a faint dotted line. In the Bar flies Dr. Bridges found this arrangement in duplicate. In the Bar-double it was tripled. In the Bar-reverted it returned to the single sequence...
...generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre in all its childish ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads to indicate thought, hide behind chairs to avoid each other and. when required to faint, are lowered easily to the floor by ubiquitous property men. First nighters found all this to their liking, thought dainty, wide-eyed Helen Chandler looked lovely as a sprig of almond blossoms, considered her real-life husband Ac tor Fletcher adequately droll, rated Lady Precious Stream as unimportantly amusing...