Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused their New Deal issue by all plumping for the vote-catching Townsend Plan of old-age pensions. Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios-5 to 4 Republican this year (gubernatorial) as against 4 to 3 Republican...
Discovered in a Paris linen closet and identified by The Netherlands' eminent Art Historian Abraham Bredius, the painting shows Christ in that episode after His Resurrection when He was not recognized by two of His followers until the moment He blessed the bread at their meal. In composition, it resembles a painting by Caravaggio, which Vermeer could only have seen in Rome as a young man. This and the head of Christ which is evidently based on the head in Leonardo da Vinci's famed Last Supper are strong evidences that Vermeer studied in Italy. The wine...
...would never have been heard of." Tom thinks Ben ought to get Cardozo's place on the Supreme Court. They call themselves catalysts-agents who cause reactions to occur without themselves being altered. Despite the seeming change in Corcoran, into a politician with power for the moment as great as Jim Farley's, this remains essentially true. Ambition for high office does not trouble him now because he has more exciting occupations. If he held an important office, he would have to observe rules of the game. As it is. Corcoran & Cohen are beyond the rules. They...
...London. Foreign Office heads worried lest Sir Edward's attack offend Australia at the moment when Britain is striving desperately to maintain Dominion acceptance of her own foreign policy. Next day their fears were relieved. Out came the Australian Prime Minister, bluff Joseph A. Lyons, with one of the most vigorous backslaps for British Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy ever delivered. To newshawks Prime Minister Lyons declared that his Cabinet had decided to express to Great Britain its complete confidence in steps and methods adopted by the British Government for a peaceful settlement of the Czechoslovak-Sudeten...
...gardener. Such waves hit a receiving antenna beyond the horizon only sporadically and by accident. The Zworykin invention, using two receiving antennae hooked up to a single receiving station, and an automatic device to match the wave length at the transmitter and receiver to the atmospheric conditions of the moment, is designed to assure unbroken, even, ultra-high frequency communication between a transmitter and one receiving station beyond the horizon. It would keep the uncertain spray steadily pouring on its objective...