Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is the greatest moment of my life," said he. "I have heard of the House of Lords all my life, and here...
...longed to go to Washington while in office but were prevented by "circumstances." Brief and in comparatively good taste upon this sour-grape theme was kinetic Liberal David Lloyd George. But turgid, bumbling Conservative Stanley Baldwin was long-winded, unsporting. He congratulated Mr. MacDonald on having "taken the first moment that had been possible in recent years to make his visit. It could not have been done by any Government until the actual time he went!" Mr. Baldwin even suggested, "although I am not greedy of power," that he or some other Conservative prime minister might in future make another...
...Prince Umberto of Italy riding in a Brussels street at the moment when an anti-Fascist took a shot at him (TIME, Nov. 4). You heard the shot, saw the crowd swerve to pounce on the assassin. You saw the young Prince, his face tight as a drum, proceed to lay a wreath on a monument as though nothing had happened...
...most of which the University reserves were bearing the Crimson standard, was scoreless. Harvard got its break, however, shortly after the third period opened when Talbot giant guard, recovered a fumbled punt The Crusaders retreated to their 2-yard line, held stubbornly, and punted out of danger, for the moment at least. Starting on the opponents' 30-yard stripe, a trio of Sophomore backs, Mays, Devens and White, carried down again, Mays finally scoring on a lateral from Devens In the final period White speared a Holy Cross pass, raced 33 yards to the Purple 3-yard line, whence Devens...
...once, as they did at Greek tragedies, that the protagonist is to die at the end. The book begins with the death of its hero. On Nov. 4, 1918, Captain George Winterbourne, exposing himself unnecessarily to heavy machine gun fire, was instantly killed. Attempting to account for that last moment, the rest of the book depicts the life of the hero, of his parents and grandparents...