Word: moment
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...swore, in a moment of revelry...
...Monday afternoon the races of the Union Boat Club, which were postponed from the preceding Wednesday, were rowed over the usual course. For the single-scull race there were two entries, Wiley, '77, and Mudge, of the Medical School. At the last moment Mr. Mudge found that his stretcher was too short for him, and Mr. Wiley rowed leisurely over the course alone, making the two miles in 15 minutes 58 seconds. Shortly before six the race for four-oared barges with coxswains was called. There were three entries for this race: a four belonging to the Union Boat Club...
...race, but as it was they caused some distrust in the crew, and it was whispered that Matthews would probably come in second, and perhaps give Holworthy a hard pull for first place, for they were the stronger crew. Holyoke had made such radical changes at the last moment that none who know the necessity of uniformity of rowing doubted but that, barring accidents, she would come in last...
...this plan the person most interested in collecting the money will collect it, and those paying will pay it just at the moment that they reap the benefits of it; both sound principles of political economy...
...moment here, - then gone, forever gone...