Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment ago I mentioned the manufacture of hemp. In the United States, hemp connotes rope, but in the Philippines much of our clothing is made of hemp cloth. In fact, the light hemp cloth is to our body what the straw hat is to our head. The weather there is very warm, rarely below 72 degrees, rarely above 86 degrees, which indicates that we have a small range of temperature throughout the year...
...closed around Jeffrey like a net of silk. He was fond of Joan? but Inez was, and had been, every- thing he cried for. Yet he could not bear to hurt Joan?and it was only after weeks of unhappiness that he mastered himself at last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only been an impulse for splendor in his life?an impulse fulfillment could only spoil it. Her power faded from him?after all, he was made for work (he thought), not for happiness. So he stayed with Joan whole-heartedly?and was happy...
...From the moment the suit was begun he fought it not merely with tooth and nail, but with all the mud and filth he could reach, hurling the dirt in every direction...
...injustice to Princeton to say that Harvard won because it wanted victory just a little bit mere than Princeton. The Crimson eleven, undeterred by injuries to some of its best men before and during the game, never let up for a moment and won the triumph it deserved. Its spirit was exemplified by the man who, removed in the last few minutes of play, collapsed as he left the field. That was the spirit not of one man but of the team which gained the first victory over Princeton since 1916. All Harvard has joined in honoring that team...
...flush of victory it is perhaps easy to forget, for a moment, what lies ahead. Two successive defeats made most Harvard men anxious above all for victory over Princeton this year. But the Yale game is still to be played and Harvard will never forget that the Yale game is the last on the schedule. When November twenty-fourth arrives "there is almost no chance" as the Yale News remarks rather ironically "of Harvard's being indifferent". In the past Yale has not had to complain of Harvard indifference on the football field, and, in view of the records...