Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following observations by the recently knighted Max Beerbohm [TIME, June 19] . . . although written at least a quarter of a century ago, are so surprisingly pertinent to the present moment that I am sure many of your readers would delight in them. The quotation is from an essay on the Republic of Switzerland in the volume Yet Again...
...keep on booming him, radiant Mr. McNutt accepted. Proclaimed he: I am appreciative of the tremendous responsibility of administering such a program. There are some who say that it is too vast to be workable, too ambitious to be realized. I do not hold with these critics for a moment. This program can be built into human benefits unheard of, by the hard work, the planning, the cooperation and the sacrifices of citizens and sincere public officers in county, State and nation...
...sonofagun" among Louisiana jobholders was at that moment being returned from a quick trip he took to Canada after dropping some $500,000 of Louisiana State University's funds in the wheat market. Dr. James Monroe Smith, who resigned as president of the university just before he skipped (TIME, July 10), got out of an airplane at New Orleans and was met by a crowd of reporters. To one who began asking him about the irregularities at the university Dr. Smith snapped: "I'll answer those questions later," then added: "I don't know...
...week Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagaka prayed at a shrine in their medieval Tokyo Palace. On the same day Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma led his entire Cabinet to famed Yasukuni Shrine, in Tokyo, where they paid their respects to Japan's war dead. At noonday there was a moment of silence. There were no parades, no brass bands, no excitement. Correspondents described the atmosphere in the Japanese capital as one of quiet resignation, with stronger indications than ever before that the Japanese people, going into the third year of war, would welcome peace. It was the second anniversary...
...ammunition into Danzig, spreading tales of terror, creating incidents and sounding false alarms, the outline of the coup could be foreseen. Danzig would have an "internal uprising." The eight members of the Danzig Senate-all Nazis-would declare the Free City absorbed into the Reich. At that moment police and soldiers would evict the Polish customs guards on the area's borders and take over. If the Poles decided then to march into Danzig, they, and not the Nazis, would be placed in the position of being the aggressors...