Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years have been as kind to the fellowship as they were to the instrument of its early publicity. At the moment, the fellowship is held by two graduate students, Stainslaw Wellisz and Harold Ferdinand Van Ummerson. The principal has new mounted to $16,137.08 according to the latest Treasurer's Statement, published over the signature of William H. Clatlin. Mrs Clatlin dabbles in archaeology...
...take pictures of random stars; and the astronomers, though they kept their mouths shut, seemed more starry-eyed than usual after the big telescope's initial performance. The man to whom the moment meant most may have been Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, whose specialty is space. Years ago, using the 100-in. telescope on Mt. Wilson, he had explored the known frontiers of the universe. He found a baffling mystery: the distant nebulae (clouds containing billions of stars) seemed to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, as if the whole universe were convulsed by one vast...
This time Hope & Crosby are stowaways on a Brazil-bound steamer. Dorothy Lamour is a wealthy maiden in distress, amply surrounded by Gale Sondergaard and associated heavies. Miss Sondergaard, a hypnotist, has Dottie all set to marry a money-hunting louse the moment the boat reaches Rio. One gathers that the menaces are trying to snatch a fortune by this deal, but when the time comes for explanations, Crosby calmly tears up "The Papers" that would make everything clear and says with a leer, "The world must never know...
...seem in retrospect to have revealed almost as much statesmanship as the measures themselves. They cooled tempers, or they permitted vaguely formed ideas to crystallize. Moreover, the late arrivals among the delegates were new reinforcements for one group or another. They were like substitutes sent in at a critical moment in a football game, and in many respects they were, like Roger Sherman of Connecticut, more effective than the members of the first team...
...exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that his father is lying upstairs paralyzed, after having been shot by Randolph in a moment of hysterical terror...