Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden, doctor, my ears begin to buzz. The room swirls around me. My eyes jerk and I can't keep them still. I reel, and if I don't catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...
...Federal Housing Administrator, who speaks their language, has taken the lead within the Government of rallying chat conservative opinion which believes that sound recovery must wait on private capital, which opposes huge Federal expenditures that put the Government in competition with private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social results. To the latter school belongs Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, New Dealer pure-of-heart and dour-of-tongue, who believes in "letting the Government...
...Robinson. With two other engineers he had taken turns at the controls-two hours on, four hours off. The white glare of publicity proved too much for him. Just as he was being presented with a toy model of M10001 he swayed, tottered, fell to the floor in a faint...
...called such, do present a series of vivid and intensely vital experiences. "I am an Armenian," he says. "I have no idea what it is like to be an Armenian or what it is like to be an Englishman or Japanese or anything else. I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive. This is the only thing that interests me greatly. This and tennis." And he does succeed admirably in many instances in communicating his conception of life, though it is often a morbid and distorted one. It is this element that...
Streaked with silver by last week's end was the darkling sky over the U. S. textile world as it emerged after its three-week strike. In the South many a mill owner still kept his heart and door closed to returning strikers and there were faint rumblings of a new walkout. But in Washington three tried & trusted mediators went soberly to work on the strike's cause and consequence with bright prospects of success...