Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio, as well as for almost everybody else, the Royal Visit to the States last week was a great event (see p. 15), and radio made a great to-do about it. Newscasters kept for U. S. tuners a here-they-come, there-they-go vigil from the moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This...
...Trout told the radio audience a few tales out of school. Best: In the Capitol rotunda, awaiting Their Majesties, members of Congress twitted stogy-chewing Vice President John Nance Garner about his formal duds, inquired what sort of curtsy he would drop when the big moment came. In response, reported Trout, the Vice President grasped two velvet ropes for support, did knee-bends until a "shhh" warned of Their Majesties' approach...
...universities, President Conant said, "the traditional wisdom of the past meets the flood tides of the moment. From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...
...concluded the sermon with the following exhortation: "Neglect the tumult of the moment; do not be afraid to be yourself. Choose a field of effort where you may develop your talents to the utmost, Labor honestly and selflessly in your chosen calling. Then in spite of the warfare of ideologies and the outcome of current struggles if your hopes be realized, at some later day it may be written of you, 'He also lived to build a finer civilization.' In the multiplication of such epitaphs the greatness of a nation may truly be read...
...Department of Economics will cause regret not only among his large body of personal friends, but among the members of the University as a whole. The retirement of such an able administrator from the helm of the largest department in college leaves the department adrift at an especially crucial moment. Yet one cannot help but admire his sparkling career in such a responsible position and feel that his relief from duty is well deserved...