Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, on vacation in Florida, Mr. Cox, perhaps regarding the moment as opportune, consented to a request from his Ohio followers that he make a contest for delegates...
...moment he is President of the Federal Council of Churches, the centre of Protestant cooperation. He is a fierce enemy of Roman Catholicism, particularly in backward countries...
...words had been spoken by my father they could not have been more distinct or possessed more of the feeling of personal communion. Although but a lad, I knew that God had communicated with me for one brief moment. I stood as truly alone with him as though there was not another human being on earth. As I look back on it, the sense of complete isolation then was even more marvelous than the words...
...Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during...
...knows life" and is anxious to tell you this. Her chief skill seems to be in making unsuccessful marriages, of which she contracts two. One with Bendix Grun-lich, a fraud with handsome yellow moustaches, a faculty for falling dramatically on his knees at just the correct moment, and a distinct taste for the Buddenbrook money. The second with Herr Permaneder, a really kind-hearted if totally impossible Municher...