Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judging, purely from the present situation, it would seem wise to consider the University as superior to the houses until the houses can be distinctive without being provincial. It is justifiable to utter a faint "Cave" against either the rabid pursuit of originality or the passive acceptance...
Since the academic overtones of the house plan are of such an apparently faint and fugitive nature, it is with the social and extracurricular future of the college that Harvard men will, as a group, be concerned. That the "democratic" principles on which the present grouping was designed are destined to an early oblivion if they ever existed at all, would seem to be the consensus of responsible opinion about Harvard Yard, and it seems inevitable that when all the seven units into which the undergraduate portion of the university will be subdivided are completed, certain of these colleges will...
Like most scientists nowadays, Jeans is not dogmatic about science. "We cannot claim to have discerned more than a very faint glimmer of light at the best . . . our main contention can hardly be that the science of today has a pronouncement to make, perhaps it ought rather to be that science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself...
...front cover) If a stadium were built big enough to hold all the U. S. football public at one time, it would be big enough to hold the entire population of Chicago, Paris, or of Rome, Hamburg and Glasgow put together. Its breath rising in a vast faint mist, its shout like the roar of an earthquake, its tiered ranks veiled with the smoke of innumerable cigarets, its tremendous stare as heavy as sunlight, this crowd in its fabulous coliseum has no equal in the world. Once the crowd was one-quarter its present size. It was composed of undergraduates...
...newsworthy. In 1911 she won first prize in a short-story contest in which there were 15,000 entries. In 1921 her play Miss Lulu Belt won the Pulitzer Prize. Last month she publicly forgave a plagiarist (TIME. Sept. 15). Other books: Preface to a Life, Faint Perfume, Birth, Friendship Village...