Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Either family income should be increased or the public pay roll should be reduced. And at this moment the most immediately promising step seems to be an operation on the public pay roll...
...Wages will never settle the labor problem because the saturation point will never be reached," wrote Arthur Vandenberg and his colleagues. "Wage increases create the same result as the serving of red meat to animals at the zoo-satisfaction for the moment, a more ravenous appetite later...
...want to hear pearly phrases about traditions and sonorous sentences about ambitions and goals. As they march past the trees and brick, mellowed by the shadows of the hour, they are properly filled with a feeling at once gay and quiet-a feeling that has its emotion in the moment not in the past...
...enumerators reach Cambridge we shall have to remain unhappily ignorant of the relative strength at Harvard of the "tender-minded" and the "tough minded." But this we do know now: however receptive the class of '39 may be to President Conant's Baccalaureate advice "Neglect the tumult of the moment," however complacent they may become in the face of wars and panics and clashing ideologies, there is still enough energy left in them for just a little tumult. Harvard's seniors are still interested in Harvard, and they are willing to disturb the mellow mood of returning alumni in order...
...here at college have a goal ahead, a moment so far in the future that it is hard to imagine,--twenty-fifth reunion. They wonder who they will be, what they will have done, what their class-mates will be like. They feel that that moment, those few days when they will gather here again, will show them the substance of which their class is made. Today, class of 1914, that moment is yours. Men here now can only hope that they will see in themselves twenty-five years hence the strength they...