Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatrical back to the Lowell, Mass, child who at four snipped off her younger sister Barbara's pretty curls; who at eight hated dolls, romped naked in snowdrifts; who at ten, terribly burned in a Christmas tree blaze, played blind for the exquisite drama of the moment...
...cross-section hesitated, digested a stringy fingernail, then blurted, "Spring brings out the animal in Radcliffe girls." After a moment of shocked silence, the survey was continued. "Are Radcliffe girls ardent bicyclists?" the cross-section was asked. "Oh, no," the girls coood, "we're just ardent...
Last night when the list was to be printed again there were only 26 names. But it seemed to include every name in the previous list. The Committee voted to take the matter to the offices of the department of Physic Research, but at the last moment somebody announced that he had counted the original list over and found that there were only 26 names on that, and that the Freshman Committee (of one) had miscounted...
...emergencies under a new Super General Staff (TIME, Jan. 31), and a reason given for this was that lack of such coordination had "paralyzed" what might otherwise have been quick French action after Hitler invaded the Rhineland. But there was last week no Cabinet in France at the moment, and to the Austrian Government, calling frantically from Vienna, the Quai d'Orsay had to reply that "in the circumstances" no action likely to check the German advance could be taken by France...
...Minister agreed to transmit most anxious British warnings to Adolf Hitler, and then Ribbentrop with Chamberlain and Halifax joined the ladies. Later in the day Der Führer. who was holding his secret Privy Council on Foreign Affairs in continuous session at Berlin as German military radio flashed moment-by-moment technical details of the troop movements, was waited upon by the British & French Ambassadors with identical, very sharply-worded protests. But they were not accompanied by anyone representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous official London...