Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proverbial busy college student with classes to attend, lessons to prepare, letters home and otherwise to write, a thousand and one outside activities to attend to, and the necessary and desired amount of recreation to get in, when he so invariably exclaims, "No time for reading!" But just a moment: Did it ever occur to you that after all in this very busy life of ours we do somehow manage to squeeze in the things we want most? No dodging...
...hills are desolate, its color gray, the dress of its people largely black. That austerity that is only hinted at in the saddest parts of Brittany, is in Spain magnified to the dignity of a persistent vision, brooding in the colorless sky, dispelled, or rather, transformed, only for a moment in the heat of noon, intense, akin to the early Gothic. It is strain to the verge of insanity. In England, Blake's engravings have something of its spirit. It is fundamental in Spain and it is what Goya and el Greco and now Zuloaga have put in their paintings...
...time for complying with this requirement grows short. Yale has already made her application for a unit at New Haven, and Cornell and Pennsylvania have announced their intention of so doing. Even if the time is not yet ripe for any action on our part, has not the moment arrived for at least a word to assure us that the University is actively engaged in considering how Harvard can best fulfill the plans which the War Department has proposed and comply with the regulations which the military authorities have deemed necessary to its most efficient operation? B. A. G. FULLER...
...that moment, however, the most interesting thing was the football game...
Likewise the acting varies, but Miss Tempest raises each of her scenes to sparkling high-comedy, strengthening every moment her position as one of our chiefest comediennes. "A Lady's Name" is hardly valuable for its story. In an effort to obtain "copy" for her novels although possessing a surly finance, advertises for a husband. Her most promising material appears in a sleek, oily gentleman's gentleman. So pleased is she with his novelizing possibilities that she invites herself to tea at his place of service. A bored gentleman, who comes in fun and stays at the lady's feet...