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Word: moment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appealed to, and this is how she answered: "It is very difficult for me to decide, but I will tell you how they both affect me. In the balcony scene, when Garrick is making love as Romeo, he is so eager and ardent that I am afraid every moment that he will leap and jump up to me. When I act with Barrie he is so fascinating that I am afraid every moment that I will jump down from the balcony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. JEFFERSON'S ADDRESS. | 5/15/1895 | See Source »

...game began at 3 o'clock with Rand at the bat, but a moment later a shower sprang up which caused a delay of ten minutes, but lessened the intense heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEATEN IN THE FIFTH. | 5/13/1895 | See Source »

Tennis players must not overlook the fact that entries close this evening. As usual, many men seem to have postponed entering until the last moment, and they must be careful not to let even that slip by. The tournament is to be begun on Monday, so that the time for receiving entries can not be extended. There should be many more names in the blue book at Leavitt & Peirce's before today is over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/11/1895 | See Source »

...uneventful, Adams alone reaching first base, on Hoppin's fumble, but being thrown out trying to make second on the error. With one man out Wrenn made a single and stole second. Paine filed out and O'Malley followed with a hit, advancing Wrenn to third, and a moment later stole second himself. With two men on bases McCarthy struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINETY-SIX, 5; NINETY-FIVE, 1. | 5/10/1895 | See Source »

...thousandth of a second which has been contrived in the Yale Laboratory. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot of the runner which thread breaks an electric contact the moment the runner starts. Each of these electric contacts makes a spark on a smoked cylinder in such a way that the time which has elapsed between the first contact and the second can be measured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sprinter's "Re-Action Time." | 5/8/1895 | See Source »

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