Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will include a large area of the sky at once, and will also obtain images of very faint stars and nebulae. With this telescope, Professor Pickering expects to accomplish as much as seventeen other observatories working together according to a plan recently matured at Paris. The lenses will require almost as much metal and as much time and care in construction as the great Lick lens. The contracts have...
While the Yale crew were rowing on the harbor last Tuesday afternoon, W. H. Corbin suddenly fell back in his seat in a dead faint. The cause of this sudden illness is heart disease and Corbin will be kept out of the boat for some time.- Boston Herald...
...game the nines each got about twenty minutes practice and both received much applause for their good work. Princeton's men seemed at this time almost sure of their ball in all fielding work. At 3.30 the game commenced amid many cheers from the Princeton bench, and a faint one for Harvard by the Lehigh...
...eclipse of the moon on last Saturday evening at the astronomical observatory was in every way successful. The observations were carried on under the direct personal supervision of Professor Pickering who co-operated with the authorities at the Russian observatory of Pulkova in ascertaining the precise time when certain faint stars were occulted by the moon. These stars, usually invisible when in the neighborhood of the moon, on account of the brilliancy of its light, became visible by reason of the shadow of the earth falling on the moon, the light of which was thereby diminished. So that by determining...
...fashioned game, on the suggestion of Harvard men adopted the new style. In that year the Harvard team who had had the advantage of two or three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from lack of experience. I have a faint remembrance now, of the general feeling of mortification among the students because of that crushing defeat, and the determination to retrieve the next season. How apt pupils they were is shown by the fact that since that time Harvard has never defeated the men whom she first taught to play the Rugby...