Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dictator" Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Towering and eccentric, the Marshal showed to his visitors a most amiable side of his often petulant and arbitrary character. Perhaps he was touched when one of the pilgrims, Mile. Janusewska, an especially attractive young woman, sank weeping at his feet, overcome at the moment when she was supposed to have made a little speech accompanying the presentation of a handsome gold-handled sabre...
...Saxon countries were the most liberal in the world. The wind has turned, the English are less free and the Americans are enslaved. Some devil has got them to open the gates of hell. To every traveler, who is forced to submit to the most humiliating experiences from the moment he arrives in America until he leaves, the Statue of Liberty cannot be anything but a farce...
...self-immortalization in portraiture and self-propulsion in art, as opposed to slavish dogmatism in conception and execution. For such reasons, then, art lovers regard the quartocento and quintocento painters with the same veneration that philosophers accord Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and poets, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil. It was of great moment to them, therefore, when Sir Joseph Duveen, art dealer of England, announced purchase for $3,000,000 of the famed Benson collection, which, better than any other private collection extant, traces the history and spirit of early painting in Italy. Robert H. Benson is head of a potent, English banking...
...however, enable a plane to depress its wings, bird fashion. It was an adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward. If reliable...
Pilot Smith described a hazardous moment: "Once we started to land on some 'farms' (formed by mirages) caused by the moon on a fog bank...