Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a distance. Sometimes universities are held to be too connective and sometimes too radical. Indeed, it has happened that both criticisms were leveled simultaneously at a given institution. For example, Oxford and Cambridge were both belabored with hard words by Thomas Hobbes and John Milton at the same moment; in the one instance for being hotbeds of republicanism and rebellion, and in the other for being reactionary strongholds of the church and partisans of an autocratic king...
...From the moment he rode into Little Rock and joined the boys, Harry Truman was at his handshaking, backslapping best. If there was anything he liked as much as winning elections and playing poker, this was it-the annual reunion of the 35th Division and its famous offspring, Captain Harry's hell-raising Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F...
...Later that evening, I learned the truth. From that moment we led a strange life. It was only when we had a lovers' quarrel that he used his normal deep man's voice. Other girls never guessed...
...moment it looks as if Judge Knox is going to have some fun kidding the picture's moral. Instead, he falls earnestly in love with a pert little war widow (Ann Sothern) who gives him a job in her roadside restaurant. After several reels of platonic romance and irresponsibility, the lotus-eating judge remembers that he is a married man and boards a train for Boston, intending to get a divorce. But by this time it is clear that he is actually going to resume the duties of a responsible citizen...
...general rule an exam in a certain subject given away must start at precisely the same moment as the same exam begins in Cambridge. For this reason crew coach Tom Bolles, who is in charge of proctoring finals in 30 subjects for his charges in New London, has had to build his whole practice program around the exam schedule, planning rowing only early in the morning and late in the afternoon...