Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indicates not so much antagonism to the house plan as dissatisfaction because they were not informed about the progress of events. We venture to say, for instance, that the CRIMSON would have shown a quite different state of mind if its representatives had known what was going on from moment to moment. Further, there are reasons for believing that the undergraduate papers do not reflect undergraduate sentiment as a whole. Even the social clubs, which at first were inclined to look with disfavor on the house plan because they feared it might lead to their extinction, have changed their views...
...choice would almost inevitably fall upon him. The Watson handshake is magnificent. The Watson cordiality to constituents, the Watson geniality towards colleagues, are vasty and impressive. The Watson oratory has been variously and unkindly described as "gusty," "oleaginous" and even "blowsy," but its author is undismayed. His every moment is instinct with the dignity of high office. Even in physique he is a great man. His head is large, his neck short, his body ponderable. His hat, his collar, his necktie are all in the grand old tradition. The only small thing about him is the eyes, which peer keenly...
...account of all three at the same time and it is not in the province of the experts [of the Second Dawes Committee] to do so. They are trying simply to find a solution for the political aspect and part of the financial one. "They are all aware every moment that the economic aspect may any day within the next 60 years upset all their calculations...
...land to wholesalers and retailers without the nature of its leading article being made public. All leeway time allowance for distribution was eliminated. Shipment was made by express instead of freight at additional cost of $12,000. Wholesalers were admitted to the secret and enjoined to secrecy at the moment of shipment. Not until three days before the Cosmopolitan reached newsstands was the truth let out. Then, because other magazines were beginning to get publicity by boasting of similar features to come, Editor Long announced that the leading article of the April Cosmopolitan was "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency...
...University's authorities, and rebuffed from Memorial by the students themselves, was a balm strong enough to help the class upon a third road. Since 1922 stained glass and pseudo-Gothic vaults have reverberated once each year to jazz; but Protean student opinion stops changing for a moment, and finally agrees that bare wall expanse deadens good cheer. Back Bay is forbidden--all the better does the Harvard luster of the affair show...