Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teachings of my hardworking, religious mother that prepared me for a happy life of service based on faith in God. ... At this very moment there are gathered around her grave some of my relatives who were unable to come to this ceremony and for me, in her memory, they are tenderly laying on her grave a cross of fresh flowers...
...this phrase sounds a trifle odd and strained at the moment, surely it is not because of any inherent peculiarity, but because our ears of late have been assaulted with catchwords of far different and more ominous connotations which appear to sway the world...
...School official spoke more technically, "The changes show the amazing versatility of a professor of law, who is capable of taking over a course in practically any branch of the law, at a moment's notice, and carrying it through for the remainder of the year...
...conclusions: the "peace for our time," which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he took home from Munich, was at best only an armistice; notwithstanding post-Munich pretenses, war has been postponed, not really averted, to a moment more unfavorable than ever for the democracies; if French and British diplomatic forces were not completely routed at Munich, they were certainly obliged hastily to retreat and sue for what President Roosevelt later called "peace by fear...
...earliest and most effective blows struck for the University was not long ago when a school was closed up due to infringement of copy-right of a professor's book. This is apparently the sole means of attack left to the University at the moment. While it may be effective against bureaus selling notes on books, this attack is ineffective against general course coverage through lectures and such. For the legal status of copy-rights on lectures is in doubt...