Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Frederick Adam Hoefer, who came from Boston with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching...
...most paris of the Southwest, Meyer said today in an article in The Saturday Evening Post, the pass is a normal part of the offense "set a dangerous maneuver to be used sparingly and in faint hope." He backs this statement up with the figures that in 1938 the Frogs passed 229 times and in 11 games lost the ball only seven times by interception, but 17 times by fumbles...
...international banker, Henry went through the regular paces of an idle and talented young man. He tried his hand at Wall Street and at playwriting, married, divorced and remarried, turned to the expensive indoor sport of sculpture. He put on seven shows, drew from the puzzled critics only such faint praise as "decadent, exotic, bizarre, sensational." In 1914 Sculptor Clews left Manhattan with silent dignity for Paris, the haven of Bohemian expatriates...
...walked homeward along the shore around the harbor, a moon began to rise. It appeared diffused through the misty, foggy veil. Off, a little to itself, a new sloop was anchored. It rocked gently in the wash, its spar swaying a little. Above it hung a single faint star...
This picture is deftly directed throughout in an even mood of triviality. It has no overtones of any kind, except a faint note to the effect that wives like husbands to praise their new negligees...