Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offing buzzed Hornet Daladier. The moment the peace apostle consented to enter the vegetarian's cabinet, the hornet stung...
...going from day to day for over a month. So chaotic is the state of civil war throughout China-with disaffected "generals" constantly forming new combinations for and against the government-that the president has often not known from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad Yangtze to the great inland...
...John Drinkwater to interpret its hero for the English. Thousands of U. S. citizens saw it in Manhattan a decade ago, many went two and three times. Frank McGlynn still looks like Lincoln, makes him a compassionate and credible figure from his rustic days at law until the dark moment when John Wilkes Booth creeps toward the door of the red-plush Presidential...
...market would have gone downward on its unchecked momentum is difficult to say. But brokers and traders alike agreed that the man who bid 205 for 25,000 shares of Steel had made himself a hero of a financially historic moment...
...specialty is running the 100-yard dash in a trifle under 10 seconds flat. Rumor has him confined to crutches now but he is making the trip to Cambridge and don't be surprised if he hobbies out on to the field Saturday and discards his crutches in a moment of weakness to the dismay of a stalwart Crimson defense. Other famous cripples have made sports history as for example the Yankee team of last year and Erwin Gehrke of Yale-Harvard renown...