Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other Reed, David of Pennsylvania, objected to consideration of the resolution. The vote was 45 for and 34 against consideration. A moment later another roll call was held and the resolution was passed 59 to 13. In both cases only regular Republicans voted in the negative. Of the 34 regular Republicans who first voted "no", 14?Butler, Cameron, Cummins, Curtis, Dale, Gooding, Harreld, Jones (Washington), McMaster, Pine, Stanfield, Weller, Williams and Willis?changed to "yes" on the second vote. And seven others simply left the Chamber and did not vote the second time?Watson, Robinson (Ind.), Deneen, Keyes, Norbeck, Capper...
Last Monday evening the Cambridge School board voted to have Superintendent Fitzgerald investigate the topics discussed by the Philosophy Club at the High and Latin School. So for the moment Cambridge shares with cities further from the center of culture the stigma of assininity...
Occasionally some incident brings to the "average citizen" a tremor of fear as he considers for a moment that one of those sacred rights which have in his conversation convinced him that he has reason to be proud of himself and of his country is completely a thing of the past. Such an incident is that of the executive order recently issued by President Coolidge and even more recently backed by Mr. Sargent. Here he has proof positive that one more established prerogative of his particular little self has departed. For the iron hand of authority in his "free country...
...suggestion that we might achieve a broader culture and a better sense of the relatedness of things by studying in terms of situations rather than subjects is convincing in the abstract. But the moment we attempt to step from the abstract into the concrete and undertake to visualize such a teaching policy in operation in a university, a thousand difficulties arise. Few have ventured to condescend to details respecting this suggestion as far as college instruction goes. It has usually been left in that twilight zone of the abstract where we keep ideas that would be good if they could...
...further involved. The complications pile up alarmingly until, puzzled by Railroad's tactics, acquaintances cremate him alive in his office. Adelaide goes to India. Abner, poor again, goes to take care of Nessie and their baby, the worn-out Belshue having committed suicide at a chronologically proper moment...