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Word: faintly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best treatment for a faint is to do nothing, but leave the victim lying flat, advised Dr. Alfred Soffer in Today's Health. A faint, he explained, is a cure in itself-nature's way of boosting circulation to the heart and brain when blood is being drained to other parts of the body in a complex reaction to fright, shame, drugs or pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...scientists warn that the new system is still young, but they suspect that it has great possibilities. One possibility: "picture-on-the-wall" television. A faint image projected by a small TV set would be amplified by electric current supplied to a flat screen. Other possibilities are in photography (taking pictures with very dim light) and in devices for "seeing in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stepped-Up | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...went out the door, Margaret halted. "Merry Christmas to the both of you." And with a faint smile, Vag began to write a check...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joy of Giving | 12/16/1954 | See Source »

Like most physicists, Fermi regretted that atomic energy, so far, has been used largely for military purposes. He died just as the world was on the verge of seeing the faint beginnings of the peacetime good that it can bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Navigator | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Faint Beginnings. Fermi fled from Mussolini's tyranny and reached the U.S. n time to become a key man in the atom-bomb project. Many honors came to Fermi, but they did not make him less be-oved by his colleagues and students. His ife after the squash-court event was omething of an anticlimax (it could not lave been otherwise), but it was happy and productive. He had a zest for life (skiing, swimming, mountain climbing) as ell as for knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Navigator | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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