Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wine ran in Norway. Bells pealed in Rome. Headlines screamed across the broad U. S. Bright bunting shone forth in grim Alaska, where searchlights had pierced the skies during the three-hour nights. Then, slowly, mankind settled back to review and evaluate what had seemed at the moment its most spectacular feat...
That the result can be understood as a vote of lack of confidence in the Coolidge faction which Senator Pepper represented is perhaps dubitable. Although the Secretary of the Treasury backed the Senator, Mr. Coolidge held off his official support until the last moment. The insurgent Republicans have never been strong in the Keystone State and whatever reaction exists can probably be interpreted as the traditional mid-term anti-administration threat...
...scant six feet, but in a final spurt pulled nearly a length ahead of Coach Steven's first boat. The second University crew was two lengths behind half way down the course, when the wash from the launches forced them to stop rowing for a moment; from there to the finish they were in rough water and fell far behind...
...metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about in tabloid newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn't. It is an axiom that the most devilmaycare gesture allowed one now is to get arrested for drunken driving...
Prominent among the speakers who will address the convention is Ernest M. Hopkins, President of Dartmouth College, who will take the subject of the undergraduate voice in educational policy. This is a matter of great moment at present, especially at Harvard where the Student Council report and the recent undergraduate meeting with the Overseers have brought it to the attention of both Faculty and students...