Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...listened to arguments, rolling innumerable cigarets, said nothing. Wearing the same clothes until they wore out, he imperceptibly became Uncle Alex, the most familiar figure of the neighborhood-a portly man now, kindly but frugal, helpful, but insisting on being paid for it, his brown hair reduced to a faint fringe, stumping along with his blackthorn cane to a nearby restaurant, observing Sunday by changing his tie and eating a better meal...
Last week a new comet hove into naked-eye view-that is, into the view of people with good eyes. Most observers found it better to look at through 8-power binoculars. A faint feather, the comet is crawling down the western sky, after dusk, toward the constellation of the Eagle (Aquila). It will get brighter this week and next. Toward the middle of January, if it develops as astronomers hope, Cunningham's comet should be the brightest since Halley's great comet...
Another convention highlight: Aviators' Blackouts. After breathing the thin air of high altitudes for a while, fliers sometimes faint when they gulp oxygen from their tanks or dive swiftly to richer air. In other words, their blackout may not be due to too little oxygen but to a sudden supply of too much. Last week the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacologist Carl Frederic Schmidt, a top-notch U. S. respirationist, explained...
...respiration muscles. If the lungs suddenly get more oxygen, the carotid and aortic bodies rest, turn back control to the centre in the medulla. But that stupefied centre may not be in shape to take over right away-thus, for a few seconds there is no control and aviators faint. It is rather like a fly ball dropping to earth between two baseball fielders because each expects the other to catch...
...believe that Lewis would come out for Willkie were lesser C. I. O. leaders. More than any other man, except Franklin Roosevelt himself, John Lewis had built up the faith of his membership in the President. In union halls, by home radios, they now waited to hear a faint, damning kiss for Willkie, or else John Lewis echoing the President's "A plague o' both your houses!" They heard...