Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment for the President of the U. S. to make a gesture toward Europe. Franklin Roosevelt, alone in his study, pondered sending a personal message (composed for him during the afternoon by Assistant Secretary of State Berle and Chief of European Affairs Moffat), to Adolf Hitler and President Benes, copies to go to London, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest. When he had decided he sent for Secretaries Hull and Welles. They sent for 14 correspondents, who arrived in pajamas and bedslippers under their topcoats, to receive the text of President Roosevelt's world gesture...
Sensation of the moment is the black book with the gaudy scarlet label, the new Government 1 syllabus. Completely overshadowing its dull-brown History 1 prototype, this flashy volume is tangible evidence of extensive reorganization in one of Harvard's most important courses. There were no recalcitrant conservatives or betrayers of democracy to block this measure of government reorganization, for the department's survey course has, in the past, been a black sheep of the social sciences. Popularly criticized by undergraduates, it has been found wanting generally in organization and integration, in cooperation between lecturer, reading matter, and section...
...last moment the German chancellor--who had been bluntly told that the British and French war machines were being mobilized to fight him--stepped down from the boldest and most defiant undertaking of armed force in modern histor
...travel over the rest of the group. Every single line starting post is a mighty good bet at the moment. Nobody is going to displace Bob Green or Don Daughters at end, Tom Healey or Ken Booth at tackle, or Nick Mellen or Dave Glueck at guard, or Tim Russell at center between now and Saturday--that is, of course, barring injuries...
...years before the Civil War no one knew which way the Border States would go if war came. They vacillated, compromised, stood on one political foot and then the other, kept the country on pins and needles till the last moment. The literary inheritors of this Border-State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture...