Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pain-contorted Brooklyn man was a patient of Anesthetist Marius Bohdan Greene. Taking him into an aseptic operating room, he gently rolled the patient on his side, rolled up the bed shirt, injected into the spine a mixture of alcohol chloroform, acetone and cobra venom. The tortured man unbent. Faint color flooded his face. He opened his eyes...
...faint star which is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun (and which may be the sun's nearest neighbor in interstellar space) was reported recently by astronomers of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin (TIME, May 23). Last week Dr. Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology announced discovery of a star at the other extreme of cosmic brightness-400,000,000 times as bright...
...Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been put to bed and left by his mother while she went to help her husband shut their grocery store for the night. Some one slit the rear screen door and carried off the child in his pajamas. Lodgers upstairs heard only a faint sound which they thought was the Cashes coming home. A ransom note was found at the house of Mr. Cash's brother...
...distance from the sun is 4.3 light years -about 25 trillion miles. In 1915 Dr. Robert T. A. Innes of Johannesburg discovered, by parallax observations,* that a faint star near Alpha Centauri was only 4.16 light-years away. For 23 years, up to last week, that star, appropriately called Proxima Centauri, held rank as the No. 1 solar neighbor. Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand...
Almost the 190-lb, stroke was placed under doctor's care yesterday, a faint hope remained that he would be able to lead Tom Bolles' undefeated eight in the most vital test of the season. If not, Bill Rowe will move up from the Jayvees to take his place and Barr Comstock will shift from the Thirds to lead the Seconds...