Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johns scored the next moment, as Pitcher Tony Caputo failed to handle Hoye's smash through the box. Bill Tully, whose fielding in the last two contests was outstanding, hit to the right of shortstop Fortune, who had no choice but to play to first. His hurried peg was wild, and three runs clattered across, Tully reaching third...
...labor mirrored in the stormy session that questioned deficit finance, public spending, and even the protagonists' intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate reached a point where at one moment a resolution was voted out, in and out and in again, and then had to stand for redefinition. while time limits stretched and snapped like rubber bands...
...diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack" and a "charlatan". Dr. Brinkley claimed that these statements were libelous, that as a result his annual income fell from...
After deliberating six hours, the Federal jury returned a verdict in favor of Dr. Fishbein. But no one believed for a moment that the adverse verdict would blight "Goat-gland" Brinkley's flourishing business...
...guest drama criticism on the Harvard Hasty Pudding show, in which the college boys cavort as chorus girls. . . . Mr. Lahey didn't think much of the show and said so in his review, but the paper didn't print it. . . . Presumably because the event is always a big social moment in Boston and the home towners might be offended. . . . His wind-up bears repeating, however: "These shows were originally presented for the entertainment of the Hasty Pudding in private. This is a custom which should be revived." Walter Winchell in the New York Daily Mirror...