Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They have met three teams, all of which were faster and bigger and more replete with replacements. Yet in all three encounters Harvard has out-hit, out-driven, and just plain out-spirited the opponents. In all of these games no one has left the field doubting for a moment which team was the better coached. Coach Harlow is the finest type of Harvard man, and Harvard has adopted him for her own. Those on his team look up to "Dick" so much that when they lose, they feel that they have let him down; this fact makes the loss...
...Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress at the earliest possible moment." Though the Townsend Plan is officially cold-shouldered by the Administration...
Chairman of the new firm is Tri-Continental's longtime head, handsome, suave, bright-eyed Earle Bailie. Born in Milwaukee, this 48-year-old banker began as a lawyer, in 1919 joined J. & W. Seligman & Co., became a partner in four year. He enjoyed a brief moment of national prominence in 1934 as right-hand man to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., was forced out by Senatorial objections to his Wall Street background...
...Pioneers broke a long string of unbroken losses when Davy Jones crossed the goal line late in the second period and a moment later added the extra point on a flat pass to Lynn Pratt. The score came after a march beginning after the third period was half over...
...nationwide broadcast tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy said: "As soldier and as Premier ... I am passing through the saddest moment of my life, for I am fulfilling a most painful duty, a duty which for me is worse than death. . . . We were confronted with a choice between desperate and hopeless defense, which would have meant the sacrifice of our whole younger generation, their children and their wives, and acceptance of the conditions imposed on us under pressure and without war, which in their mercilessness are unexampled in history. There are smaller states than ours that lead healthy existences...