Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clayton Glyn, widow; author of Three Weeks, His Hour, The Reason Why, Three Things, Man and Maid, The Great Moment...
...Eric glowed for a moment with satisfaction at the thought that a new League Assembly Hall and Secretariat will shortly rise upon the Bartholoni property and on adjacent lots. Sir Eric's good humor vanished as he settled down to the vast batch of despatches which are his perennial due. Ominous developments concerning the League were occurring at London (see COMMONWEALTH, "Chamberlain Grilled"), at Berlin (see GERMANY, "Tirpitz Roused"), at Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "Houghton Stumbles...
...very remarkable fact that at the present moment the amount that the United States is receiving from Europe is approximately equal to the whole amount of reparations which Germany is paying. But distribution of the receipts from Germany and payment to the United States are entirely different. The bulk of the receipts from Germany go to France, who at present is making no payments on account of her debts, and the bulk of the payments to the United States is being made by Great Britain largely out of her own resources...
This proposition is of course indisputable. No one who has faced for four years the professorial rostrum and felt facts flow in at his ears and out at the point of his pen would for a moment deny it. It is one of the inescapable features of the system--apparently bred in its bone--that if once you stop to think you lose the thread of the professor's discourse, and the thread of a professor's discourse is not an easy thing to pick up again...
...discussion of some of the discoveries he had made in this connection. He said, "During the Senatorial investigation into the responsibility for the World War, which took place in 1923, a secret treaty between France and Russia, signed in 1892, was discovered. This treaty stipulated that the moment any one of the powers of the Triple Alliance should mobilize, for whatever cause, Russia and France should mobilize simultaneously without even communicating with each other...