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Word: faintly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right after the murder Kirkes had ordered his coupe repainted, though the garage man insisted it didn't need paint. That same week the big patrolman grabbed an air hose away from a service station man and cleaned out the rear compartment of his car himself. Moreover, a faint mark on the dead girl's legs looked like the pattern of a rear-compartment floor mat found only in Ford coupes. The mat in Kirkes' 1939 Ford was missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Footprints in the Foothills | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...scout bee cannot smell flowers at any great distance; its odor perception is about as sharp as a man's. But when it alights on a flower to which it has been attracted by sight, it is so close to the flower's scent glands that very faint odors are perceptible. Most flowers have "scent spots," which the bee feels out with the organs of smell on its antennae. The scent spots lead the scout to the cups where the nectar lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Telling the Bees | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...Just Boston. But Emily is faithful to Roger to the bittersweet end - as, with a faint smile and a last little bronchitic rale, he takes his departure for the family vault. Before he is quite cold in it, Emily is seized in the brawny arms of a lace-curtain Irishman and "kissed ... as she had never been kissed before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fact of Life | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...Devout Sex. Far from being an "enthusiast" himself, Msgr. Knox is sometimes unable to suppress a faint shudder at the uncouth excesses with which his subject compels him to deal. But for the most part he treats his material with the warm antiquarian relish of a jurist whose hobby is delving into the idiosyncrasies of safecrackers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enthusiasm | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...plate, so Barer focuses the invisible image, enlarged with a reflecting microscope to about three inches in diameter, on a screen. Then, by means of a rapidly revolving mirror, he "scans"' the image, throwing the ultraviolet light from a narrow slice of it into a photomultiplier tube. The faint glimmer of ultraviolet is thus changed into a fluctuating electric current that is powerful enough to form a bright curve on the face of a cathode-ray tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cells Alive | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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