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Word: moment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most likely explanation was that in the bluff and counter-bluff of present European diplomacy, Dictator Stalin was simply clearing the decks to be ready at a moment's notice to jump either way. Foreign Commissar Molotov, inexperienced in diplomacy, represents no fixed foreign policy. Chief claim to U. S. fame was his denunciation of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as a "paid liar" for alleged slurs on Soviet aviation. Speaking German and French, he will still be able to talk turkey with the British-French "Peace Front." If these talks fail (as they were on the point of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...first test of whether matrimony will cut down his phenomenal feminine following. Slushed Louella ("Lolly") Parsons in her Hearst column last fortnight: "Frankly, and if I can judge by the batch of letters that have come to this desk recently, the youngsters are brokenhearted (at least for the moment) over the marriage of their hero, Ty Power. Mildred and Harold Lloyd told me their two daughters practically went into a decline when they heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...hrer then chopped up Mr. Roosevelt's telegram into 21 parts, prefacing his replies (see p. 11) to each of the parts with the word Antwort ("answer"). Each time he changed his inflection of Antwort; each time he got guffaws from the gallery and deputies. Big moment in hilarity came when the Führer got to Question No. 18 and read down the list of the 31 nations to which President Roosevelt had asked Herr Hitler to give assurances of nonaggression. The mention of Palestine wowed the Jew-baiting Nazis; they laughed so hard that Herr Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler's Inning | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...method is new. Dreams exist as sensation or impression, not as speech. Words are spoken in dreams, but they are usually not the words of waking life, may be capable of multiple meanings, or may even be understood in several different senses by the same dreamer at the same moment. Since dreams take place in a state of suspended consciousness, out of which language itself arises, Joyce creates, in Finnegans Wake, a dream language to communicate the dream itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Individual players, the Sophomore have shown themselves extraordinarily capable, in contrast to Dartmouth's almost entirely Senior lineup. George Hartford, continually defending the net against the most severe of the opponents' drives, has aired in nearly every moment of action, and has served to holster up the defense In critical moments. Peter Zouck, who comes from the Gilman School In Maryland, where lacrosse is on a par with football, has distinguished himself by agile footwork and speedy ball-handling. Great things were expected from Doug Anderson, the captain of the 1941 Freshman combine and an all-New England...

Author: By Richard England, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

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