Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record themselves. Ishchenko's brigade gets the honor. It is partly like a sporting event, more like a battle. There are two deserters; one brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having a baby, to be on time; at a crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks...
...generally comprehended this side the Mason-Dixon line that state institutions in the South, however liberal, cannot, with the present temper of feeling against the negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even if the colored student were tolerated by the whites, his plight would be made unbearable by social barriers erected around him. His theoretical right to learn, like his theoretical right to vote, avail him nothing...
...days of the date of the Polish king's victory. With the city's fall most of Europe would have been at the pleasure of the Grand Vizier. But Sobieski, the only European warrior who could stop the Turks, was respected and feared by Islam. When the crucial fight got under way King John, at the head of troops outnumbered five to one, literally hewed his way with his Polish sabre through the heart of the battle to the tent of the Grand Vizier. When he arrived there Turkey's reign as a great military power...
Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...
Well over six feet in height and built to be a wrestler. Professor Merriman lectures in a deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat...