Word: moment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...easy for us to pick up a newspaper and learn just what is going on at any one moment, that we are prone not to take the trouble to develope real interest in large affairs. Twenty years hence, perhaps, when we are reading an interesting history of China, we may regret our indifference. History is being made next door, yet the interests of many of us are little more than wide enough to contain the football "dope" of the hour...
...games with more vigor? Our team has coaching second to none; every man on the team, as Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter, the players must combat not only the strength of their adversaries, but the discouraging pessimism of the whole Harvard stands...
Exhortations in formal vein having proved themselves formerly in vain, the CRIMSON casts aside its arterial robe and dons for the moment Lampy's purple and yellow gymnasium suit. Its purpose is to lay bare the shocking nakedness of Ellis and other equally deserving islands to the eyes of the University. Gentlemen! their chattering teeth exposed to the furious tempests, their blue-black lips crackling and rustling in a vain attempt to produce the sadly sweet notes of "Aw, wert thou in the cauld, cauld-slaw" these shivering inhabitants of a deserted island beg you on their unbendable and likewise...
...speculations. He is about to call his students when he sees standing in the aperture to his study an angel, and anatomical anger, of course, one really anatomically possible since it had no wings. This creature points significantly to the hour glass and warns the teacher, at the moment he would ring for his students, that he has but one hour to live; that his ultimate salvation, after penance in another world, is contingent upon his finding in that last hour and in that town, one believer in all things traditional and holy. The teacher seeks for such a believer...
...centuries ago. Mr. Sinclair, the "Wise Man," overcame his slight accent; there was no disharmonizing detail in setting or in technique, and assuredly no actress could play the part of an angel more impressively and more movingly than did that remarkable actress, Miss Allgood; yet wihtal, though for the moment the play was suggestive, appealing and forceful, back of any appreciation of it was the indomitable doubt as to the place of an angel,--a messenger from the clouds,--upon the stage. What was not mystical was very real; there was too little consonance between the mystic and plain hard...