Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used converted cotton fields to graze cattle. Dairy farmers rose in strength against cotton farmers and the Boileau amendment was adopted 202-to-188. Then Minnesota's August Andresen moved to send the bill back to committee, and so many infuriated Southerners joined the revolt that for a moment the bill seemed likely to be scrapped. After the motion to recount had carried on the first count, the leaders were barely able to collect enough votes from the cloakrooms to beat it on a roll call, 206-to-197. A moment later the House, settling back into something nearer...
Half-a-dozen gas grenades arched through the window. A moment later six licked convicts stumbled out, but Captain Sanders was not with them. Guardsmen found him on the floor of his office in a pool of blood, covered with fresh stab wounds. A few minutes later in the prison hospital. Captain Sanders died...
...three Japanese soldiers struck by fragments and stumble haltingly," said Publisher George Bruce of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury. "There was a burst of blue-black smoke. The parade broke for a distance of 100 yards. For a moment everything was quiet. Then the Japanese soldiers began scattering to both sides of the street. The exact time...
...urgent reasons touching the Belgian Congo sufficient to bring His Majesty to England (see p. 19). Both the King and Prince Charles studied at Eton, have many English friends. Traditional practice in impending royal engagements is for all concerned to issue lying official denials right up to the last moment...
...year history. For this year's session of the Congress of Industry has aroused more interest, both business and political, than any since N. A. M. was founded in 1895. It did so because most of its members believed the opportunity predicted by Mr. Chester-the moment when Recovery leadership would be transferred or passed by default to Business- was clearly at hand...