Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball, a "pinch hitter" is one who bats in place of another-usually in a "pinch" (i. e.-a crucial moment in the game...
That the Communist party in Russia had two vital contributions to offer the people at the crucial moment during the upheaval ten years ago, was explained by Professor Michael M. Karpovich, visiting lecturer in the department of History in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Mexico, Archbishop José Mora y delRio, is an old and feeble man (TIME, July 26 et seq.) the real head of the Episcopate is its Secretary, Bishop Pasquale Diaz of Tabasco, a pure-blooded Mexican Indian, a smiling but doughty fighter against the anti-religious laws. During the crucial hours of last week Bishop Diaz expressed himself in fervent unbridled fashion to members of the informal U. S. investigating committee now touring Mexico. Apparently the Calles Government was thereby stampeded into the rash act of arrresting Bishop Diaz, and concealing the place of his detention. This served only...
...actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being -do not contribute immediate lucidity to events which the reader must follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences and chunks of mental and emotional background are tracked down in hurried asides. Yet such episodes, and much apparently meaningless detail-such as a sonnet composed on a challenge in two and one-half...
...candidate who answered, and he reported the uncertain whereabouts of his superior. As always, a democrat (Note to type-setter: lower case "d" on that. I shouldn't want my influence tossed on the scales against that of our calm, cool, conservative Calvin Coolidge in a crucial hour of the campaign), I engaged in converse with the underling at the other end of the wire and told him modestly...