Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nomination Mr. Pointer exclaimed: "It will be the proudest moment of my life if I am nominated by this convention. ... I received assurances only last Saturday that Lowden [ex-Governor of Illinois] will be square behind me if I am nominated...
...Religion is in the air; not long ago a congress of bishops in Texas etc., etc." But it were better to say that there is much talk of religion in the air (granted that the troubles of Messrs. Coolidge, Fall, Denby and Daugherty have largely replaced it for the moment). To look back a bit, there was the Heresy number of the "Advocate." Then "The Fool" with his rather silly Overcoat Hall came to town--at the theatre. Mrs. Fisher rendered a superb translation of Papini's "Life of Christ" and for a time that was in the foreground...
...Labor Party, the political organ of Labor, had left the matter entirely in the hands of Mr. Bromley and the Trades Union Congress, it did not take any action on its own account. For this reason, and the fact that Labor chose td antagonize the public at the moment the Labor Party was stepping into the shoes of the Conservative Government, the strike was held to be a severe blow to the prestige of Labor in Parliament...
...debts certainly have origins which are not in any way compatible with those of Germany's debt.' Never has there been official word from France to the contrary. What is really strange in Senator Borah's declaration is that it is produced at the very moment when France is bleeding herself white with a 20% new taxation. And this to pay reparation debts which, from proposals formulated by America herself, should have been paid by Germany. When France is giving the warmest reception to the American financial experts conducting the examination here it is scarcely the time...
...last lap. L. B. R. Barker Jr. '26, at anchor for Harvard, fought the famous Lloyd Hahn, victor in the K. of C. mile earlier in the evening, all the way, and lost little. At the beginning of the last lap, he struck to pass him and for a moment it seemed that he might succeed. Hahn spurted, however, and broke the tape 12 yards ahead...