Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unity, it was unfortunate that the New Deal's Thurman Arnold opened his blasts against the A. F. of L. building trades unions, dragged up old A. F. of L. scandals by the dozen, inflamed A. F. of L. conservatives and renewed C. I. O. suspicions, at a moment when sentiment for labor peace was thus growing...
...Council has grown from a tiny and neglected group into a large and flourishing organization, with a highly successful record of debates with other colleges, over the radio, and among the Houses. To deprive the Council of funds at this point would mean to destroy it at the very moment when it had finally proved workable and useful. Yesterday's forum on presidential possibilities was only an example of the consistently interesting meetings being sponsored by the Council...
...business and was going to leave it of his own accord; that his income for the next year would have been around a quarter of a million dollars, but that he couldn't be bothered with such material things; and that therefore he was leaving for good. At this moment Shaw is somewhere in Texas with general destination Mexico...
...third quarter, a Blue Devil, coming out of nowhere, blocked a Carolina punt. The ball bounded off his chest, rolled crazily toward the end zone and, before the bewildered crowd got to its feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue Devil atop it. From that moment on, Duke played diabolical ball. They intercepted passes, smothered ballcarriers, finally scored another touchdown to shatter Carolina's dreams of the Southern Conference championship and a Bowl-game bid. Duke 13, North Carolina...
...last 76 pages, covering the Sino-Japanese war, hardly do more than scratch the surface of the contemporary Chinese scene. But Moment in Peking, far superior to Author Lin's whimsical The Importance of Living, may well become the classic background novel of modern China...