Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortunes of the Liberal Party may fluctuate. It may at one moment (as was the case in 1906) seem to be so strong as to be able to defy any conceivable hostile combination. At another moment, as after the 'coupon' election* in 1918, it may seem to be so battered and mutilated as to be on the verge of annihilation. But there is only one way in which it can ever be killed, and that is by suicide...
...Government [Jan.-Nov., 1924] remained in office another year we would have introduced a bill for nationalization of the mines. We must work toward that end. . . ."; 2) James Henry Thomas, "Balance wheel of British Labor," Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen: "Do you realize that at this moment 45,000 railwaymen are out of work, and 200,000 are working only three days a week? Yet the striking coal miners expect us to aid them by contributions and to levy an embargo on foreign coal. We cannot and we will not! It is impossible." [Sporadic hisses and jeers...
...democratic nature always to speak to people in their own language. "Wah-Hoo-Wah," Joe," he responded heartily, for we are great friends. "Thanks for trying to help me out last Saturday," he continued. For, as you all remember. I tried to instill confidence at the last moment into Jess's team by predicting they would score 27 points against Yale. Now wasn't that absurd? Ofcourse. I couldn't carry the deception so far as not to give Yale's correct total of 14, not even for an old friend like Jess. Anyway, it was no use, but Jess...
...page after page the reader is held fast to the ground by a million gossamer strands of unimportant detail. Chafe though he may for the moment when he may take off and soar among the clouds, that moment never arrives...
...this poetry does not come alone from a transient emotional flash. The bard in the Molpe did not compose his song on the spur of the moment. He had a helper who wrote out the lines. To properly write the lines of the song, the composer had to experience the inspirational cesiasy of the bard just as the bard needed some consciousness of craff as he sang. This refutes those who say that long and careful foil is foreign to poetry; through the mind of the poet as he works over his lines, rewriting and correcting, there is a subconscious...