Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the faint scratching of gold pens in Paris last week an era closed-the era of Tiger Clemenceau who tried to throw a cordon sanitaire around Russia and starve the Bolsheviks out as one would exterminate lice. Even last week deep French distrust of the Red masters of Moscow caused Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to receive more praise in Paris for his elaborate ringing of the League into the Pact than for the clauses with teeth which made Berlin shiver...
Rancidity Preventive. Now that they have learned how to prevent it, chemists revealed that bacon, potato chips, cakes, candy and similar foods become rancid if wrapped in ordinary transparent cellulose sheets. Cause: ultraviolet light which reaches the food through the transparent wrapper. Cure: tinting cellulose wrapping paper with a faint yellow dye which obstructs ultraviolet light...
...Further negotiation was approved by the Conference toward the faint goals of an Eastern Locarno and a pact against "unprovoked air aggression...
Main reliance of the Davis-Gibbs work is the recently recognized fact that the brain pulsates. When it does so it produces a faint electric current which can be detected and registered on a chart by means of electrodes applied to ear and skull...
Most newsworthy Wood item at the Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once...