Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First is interest at the moment because it is exhibited to call attention to the fact that the College Library has obtained an option for the purchase of it, is the polograph manuscript of a few hundred pages of the first version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Joyce's first novel. the manuscript after being rejected by the twentieth publisher, was flung but the author into the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands resumed...
...writing a book about the old buff brick house at No. 10 Downing Street, the most famed address in the Empire. She announced: "It will begin with its first occupant, a daughter of Charles II, and finish with the black cat. That black cat has appeared at every opportune moment in recent weeks...
...days last September, German bombers were expected over London's fabled Fleet Street at almost any moment. Gas masks took their place among the teacups and typewriters in the "big rooms" (city rooms in the U. S.) of England's enormous daily newspapers, and air-raid drills were held between deadlines...
...average U. S. citizen the promise of television means the ultimate possibility of going to the cinema in his own home, of seeing newsreels at the moment news happens. To Paramount Pictures executives it meant much the same. thing last August when they bought half interest in Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc., laid plans to take a potential competitor into cinema's camp...
Then there's Austie, who didn't get much out of Lake's course when he sat next to Vag, but who can really concentrate his interest when it comes to calling the plays. There's Frank, who, like Austie, is a real triple threat man every moment he is on the field. There's rollicking Ben, who learned many lessons in patience and persistence while waiting for Vern to graduate. There's burly Mike, whose fierce competition with Ben made both of them better men. There's big Ken, who looks so docile and lumbering but about whom enemy...