Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither the sound-mechanism nor the modern sort of wit in direction can make anything new or unfamiliar out of this story which has been variously told in pictures so many times that it has become part of a general background. Spectators will await, without fear of disappointment, the moment when the bridegroom leads the girl into a mansion, and in answer to her awed question as to who owns this splendid place, explains that he has bought it for her! Best shots: Leading Man James Hall buying a taxicab; Miss Banky showing him the furnished rooms she has rented...
...laboring people ever live in such an inspiring moment as this? When you read the figures this morning you saw the Labor polls were above the Conservative polls, and twice the Liberal polls. Did you ever think you would live to see that? Honestly...
...power and the Government could fall into the hands of civilians, one of Dr. Sun's most cherished ambitions. Further, wrote Marshal Feng, President Chiang had often promised to retire to private life after the final funeral of Sun Yat-Sen (TIME, June 3). Was this not the moment? In case the "Soong Dynasty" should not fall in with his altruistic scheme, Marshal Feng ordered his private train in readiness to carry him from the interior to Peking, hinted at an imminent visit to Canada and the U. S. to repair his health...
Once before, in 1926, Professor Keesom produced solid helium. But the quantity was only one cubic centimeter, i. e., one-sixteenth cubic inch or one-fourth of a teaspoonful. That quantity lasted for only a moment, changing into liquid helium, a colorless, mobile liquid, which Professor Keesom's predecessor at the Leyden cryogenic laboratory, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), had obtained...
Heat is energy which flows into matter. So far as anyone knows it is consistent with all substances. If atoms are knots of universal waves, as has been theorized, it may be at that transcendental moment when the knots get intricate enough to "materialize" as atoms that heat begins to show in them. Conversely, when all heat has been driven from a substance, as Professor Keesom almost did last week, it may be that "matter" will explode into those universal waves which man at present can call only "nothingness." What the violence of such an explosion might...