Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-five minutes later Chief Carpenter William Huerter, standing waist deep in the turbulent sewer a block below Philip Street, thought he heard faint cries. Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...
Seventeen aged women to faint at bier @ $15 each...
...being payed to them anyway. The police force is still retained at full pay, but rumor has it that they may well be disbanded. There is not much left to steal. The crooks are gradually being driven from the city by starvation. Occasionally children in the grade schools faint from hunger...
...sent regularly from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, he and his assistants sent up kites and a balloon with aerial wires attached. A wild December storm raged, carried the balloon and most of the kites away. Finally a kite was flown successfully and on Dec. 12, above the electrical disturbances, three faint clicks came through...
...peace times such good deeds as 'picking up women who faint in the street" and "seeing that the trains are kept clean'' are done by 2,000,000 maidenly members of the All-Japan Young Women's Association, pagan...