Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they think deeply of mighty matters of sales impact, where the next onslaught should be directed. Their legal advisor-coaches sum up the opportunities and dangers, decide to put the vice-president-in-charge-of-forward-passes on the Board for some critical moments. One of the Directors feels faint from having been at it for too long. He is ordered to take a brief rest so that he will not be too fagged for next week's meeting. Another vice president takes his place, knowing that his position on the Board is only temporary. And so on through...
...Moore, 35-year-old Princeton Observatory researcher already known for her spectroscopic measurement of sunspot temperatures, the identification followed a triangular cooperation. Dr. Moore took some especially clear laboratory spectra of phosphorus provided by Dr. Carl Clarence Keiss of the Bureau of Standards, compared them minutely with some very faint lines lately observed on the infra-red solar spectrum by Mount Wilson's Harold Delos Babcock, found that three lines coincided...
...eleven-year sunspot cycle was ushered in last autumn when Mount Wilson observers spotted two faint spots too far from the solar equator to be survivors of the old cycle, too small to have any effect on earth. Last week near the sun's eastern edge erupted a whirling blot 16,000 miles across. Astronomers predicted magnetic storms and poor radio reception during the twelve days before the sun's rotation wheeled it out of sight, thought it might grow big enough to be seen with the unaided eye through smoked glass...
...reporter could hardly voice his approval of the proposal before Mr. Durante expressed the latest decree of Hollywood, with a faint smile. "A new trend in screen lovers is upon us, yeah a new trend. No more of these slick-haired, smooth guys. Inner beauty! And that's where I come in that internal pulchritude is what get's 'em. With my looks and Greta's personality, would we be glorified!" exclaimed Jimmy with that look of inquiring exultation so familiar to his fans...
...allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting in English. Meanwhile in London his lawyers won him ?11.000 ($55,880) worth of securities...