Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finding out that his home was in San Francisco, his interviewer, after a moment's thought, averred that he must reside in Cambridge during the college year. "Well," said Weinberger simply, "I couldn't exactly commute, could...
...Deal tory, who regards his prospective son-in-law's distrust of rugged individualistic money-grubbing as dangerously unAmerican. Johnny Case (Gary Grant) becomes the more ingratiating when his ambition to take a sabbatical is presented as evidence of liberal leanings. Linda relates, as her most embarrassing moment, being arrested for helping to lead a strike against a company in which Seton Sr. is a director. When she has to correct her father for failing to catch her sister's nance's name, she says: "It's Case, not Chase, father-too bad, Chase had such...
...From this moment [we are] opening to experimental investigation a forbidden field: the living human body. . . . Organs removed from the human body, in the course of an operation or soon after death, could be revived in the Lindbergh pump, and made to function again when perfused with an artificial fluid. . . . When larger apparatus are built, entire human organs, such as pancreas, suprarenal, thyroid, and other glands . . . would manufacture in vitro the substances supplied today to patients by horses or rabbits...
...solution. Last year, Clark Pendar, head of the Retail Clerks' International Protective Association of Kansas City, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, found it wise to leave town in a hurry. Promptly and without formality, Walter A. Mahan, well known to the police but up to that moment undistinguished as a labor leader, became Business Agent for the retail clerks...
Doing a smart 38 m.p.h. with wide open throttle the craft was just clearing the trees on the edge of the field, when a disagreeable down draft went to work. The ship poised for a moment, then pancaked into a large tree some 15 or 20 feet off the ground...