Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a crisis is protracted for an indefinite time, it becomes an accepted event without critical moment. In Germany, there has existed a Cabinet crisis for many months (TIME, Oct. 13, et seq.) : but the continuance of this state of affairs has caused the German people to regard it as a perfectly ordinary event. In point of fact, whether or no Chancellor Marx succeeds in forming...
Comrade Semashko, Commissar of Public Health, averred that the War Lord was in Moscow, that his health had forced him at the last moment to cancel his trip to the Caucasus, that he was busy on some literary work, his health meantime much improved. The Commissar said that the War Lord was not in prison, but living quietly in a modest apartment in Moscow and would go south in a few days...
Pride, a dismayed figure, is not permitted to obscure his mortification in the mire toward which, a witless moment back, he strutted, but is caught midway in his tumble, for all posterity to jape...
...seven passengers, had scarcely risen into the air on its way to Paris, when gusty weather caused trouble and a nose dive carried the plane straight into the ground from a height of two or three hundred feet. As the craft struck, the gasoline tank burst, and in a moment there was a rush of flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot in six minutes, but firemen and mechanics with axes could do nothing but watch the flames because of the intense heat. The seven passengers and the pilot must have died...
...with something of the same smiling seriousness that the University throws open its doors to the returning student, so soon to undergo the ordeal of Mid-year examinations. There incongruity of the present moment intermingles wishes for a "Happy New Year" with warnings of the approaching period of trial and judgment. The anxious student consults the calendar and counts his hours of grace before the first examination...