Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dead Faint? Roman Catholics and Episcopalians on the one hand and small cults and sects on the other pay more attention to healing, says Zelley, than the so-called "major denominations"-Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc. "[Suppose] a Methodist woman is taken with a severe case of neuritis. Her Roman Catholic friend will light a candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after...
Brown ends with only a faint note of hope. "We see that, although our high-grade resources are disappearing, we can live comfortably on low-grade resources. We see that, although a large fraction of the world's population is starving, all of humanity can, in principle, be nourished adequately. We see that, although world populations are increasing rapidly, those populations can, in principle, be stabilized . . . But it is equally clear that the achievement of this condition will require the application of intelligence, imagination, courage, unselfish help, planning and prodigious effort . . . Man is rapidly creating a situation from which...
Today, watered down by modern regulations, a plethora of shiny fire extinguishers and some automatic sprinkling equipment, the Hall bears only faint echoes of a vigorous Colonial past; a past when...
...Guatemala's anemic anti-Communist opposition still nursed the faint hope that President Jacobo Arbenz might become fed up with his Red allies and disavow them, that hope was blacked out last week by the most forthright pro-Communist declaration the President has ever uttered. In a 2½ hour report to Congress on the state of the nation, Arbenz called the Communists "progressive democratic forces" and "the very wellspring of our regime." He said that to turn against the Reds and repress them, as "certain landowner groups and agents of foreign monopolies" have urged, "would be ... suicide...
...brother for the Hale telescope. Even if its mirror were made twice as wide (a monstrously difficult and costly undertaking), it would see only twice as far into space. It might not see even as far as that; one of the Hale's great difficulties is the faint "shine" of the night sky, which fogs its photographic plates before they can catch the images of extremely distant objects. A bigger Hale-type telescope would suffer even more from sky shine...