Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avail themselves of them. We are not competing with the tutoring schools or attempting to find a way to pass a course with a minimum of work. Indeed, experience has shown that often all a man needs is a little encouragement and a few simple suggestions at a moment when the amount of ground covered seems impossibly great...
That this condition has at last been faced and at least partially solved by the English Department is a matter of no mean moment in the development of the Harvard curriculum. The abolition of the useless anticipatory examination and the lifting of the English. A requirement for all those who have passed the comprehensive entrance examination with a grade of 70 or above are certainly steps in the right direction...
...finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were not for the fact that in Symphony Hall at 3.15 o'clock this afternoon M. Serge Koussevitsky will present a program of music by French composers which it would be a great misfortune to miss...
...fact that Secretary of State Kellogg's clerks double-date every document of moment that leaves the U. S. State Department; once in the usual way; and again dating from "the independence of the United States," now in its 150th year...
...authentic. (The country's leading stove works are now in combine.) That Villain Lockhart was founded on fact, however, is doubtful. His tactics are consistently those of the mucker football player who not only gouges eyes and kicks groins when on the field, but also spends every waking moment in poisoning coffee, writing fake telegrams, hiring kidnapers, etc., etc. Had such a character ever existed in U. S. business, he would have been notorious far beyond the narrow confines of the stove trade...