Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a wrench the Vagabond tore his mind from reveries and returned to his book of the moment. It was a history of the Irish Rebellion, telling how noble young men and patriots suffered torture, prison, and even death at the hands of the British during the years of the World War and after, all for the sake of freedom. Prisons fouler than Widener were endured by these youthful idealists, and hunger strikes were their only means of getting out of jail. The Vagabond was not feeling the pangs of hunger. That would not come for hours, when he could...
Since the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 there have been only a few turning points in the history of Europe. There was the March on Rome in 1922 which founded the first of many modern Fascist States (see p. 24). Another epochal moment was Stalin's launching in 1928 of the first Five-Year Plan. Adolf Hitler then began striking from Germany, one by one, the shackles of Versailles, and last week came the mighty moment when his chain-bursting finally carried Nazi expansion well out beyond the borders of Germany, sent it crashing not only into...
Radioed Leader Papanin to Professor Otto Yulievich Schmidt, hardy, hairy chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration, who was on a third icebreaker not yet insight: ". . . Wewerenot anxious for a moment about our fate because we knew that our mighty fatherland which sent forth its sons would never desert them. The warm care and attention of the party and government of dear Comrade Stalin, of the whole Soviet people, uninterruptedly maintained in us the conviction to accomplish successfully all our work...
...uncomfortable moment toward the end of TIME'S second year (when circulation reached 80,760), cash in the till shrank to $5,000, enough for only a few days' operations. That, however, was due mainly to a shortage of working capital in a growing concern. It passed and a few weeks later the preferred shareholders subscribed to another stock issue doubling the company's original capital...
...heart of Moscow, carefully took him instead to a onetime Tsarist prison in the suburbs, Butyrskaya. There they found an airtight setup. U. S. Citizen Rubens, who appeared decently dressed in a zipper-closed U. S. frock, was not permitted to talk freely or be alone even for a moment with Washington's representatives. A Soviet official took charge, had Mr. Henderson ask questions which had to be translated into Russian, then after each question told U. S. Citizen Rubens whether she was permitted to answer that question or not. All questions by Mr. Henderson intended to bring...