Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the notable Europeans may actually be on hand, but as usual Harvard authorities last night maintained a "discreet silence." The names of honorary degree recipients remain an official mystery up to the very moment of President Conant's citation...
...Church. One boat bore, in a golden monstrance in an illuminated, glass-enclosed chapel, the Sacred Host. When Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State and Papal Legate to the 34th International Eucharistic Congress, held aloft the monstrance and pronounced the benediction, all was quiet along the Danube. A moment later boat whistles shrilled, church bells pealed, rockets burst in air and high on St. Gellert Hill a 60-foot cross sprang into light...
...persecutors of the First Century? St. Ambrose replies: 'The Christians who have been massacred have won the victory; the vanquished were their persecutors.' Ashes and dust are the enemies of Christianity; ashes and dust are all that they have desired, pursued-perhaps even tasted for a short moment-of power and terrestrial glory...
...improvised, unwritten, spontaneous and "one of these days even his records will be played out." To approximate that music in prose, she gives accounts of where and when it was played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about the hard, homely details of musicians' lives, the routine of rehearsals, fights, salaries, jealousies, weariness, interrupted with moments of feverish musical...
Seize the moment, apparently reasons the first competitor. His ship rises rockily, climbs in a gust of wind, scars off toward the Business School. After three and a half minutes, the judges announces that as it has disappeared from sight, its flight is officially at an end. Later in the afternoon the report flashes about that the missing ship is found in the tower of Dunster House...