Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Coleman's shift to the backfield, Burgy Ayres is apparently the most assured Sophomore of a permanent first team post, at center. Superlatives cannot be affixed to Ayres at the moment. He's only moderately steady in passing to the backfield; he is quite good at blocking; and only so so in backing up the line...
Inspired by Fuller, metropolitan papers report that the Big Green is woefully weak in material. Injuries and academic standards have riddled the team's prospects. The boys are so small that Fuller in an optimistic moment labelled them the "mighty mites." Why, there's not a man over 250 pounds...
...General and the Foreign Minister stood on the railway station of a provincial city in a foreign country, quarreling so bitterly that newspaper correspondents watching feared blows might bring their tragedy to an ignoble climax. Abruptly Smigly-Rydz turned, walked away. The Foreign Minister stood irresolute for a moment, walked to the other end of the platform, to be interned a few days later, like Smigly-Rydz, by the Rumanian Government. Despairingly Warsaw fought on; the ghost of Poland would haunt Europe for many a season; but their Poland was dead...
...British television pioneer and jack-of-all-science who worked for the British Government in the last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment-and I am of the opinion he has not-I can truthfully say that if Britain so desired she could at this very moment out-horror Hitler...
Certain it was that many publishers, thinking only of the war blast and how to trim their sales to it, were neglecting for the moment their interests in literature of the permanent kind, but farseeing publishers noted one provocative fact in the publishing history of World War I. Buried in the lists were first books of such unknowns as Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson...