Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loud and doleful need the cries no longer be. For pause but a moment to think: Was there aught in all the lectures of this half year that merited as much as mention in an exam? J. Pendergast Elliott...
...panacea for the many educational ills of the college is being offered, but few deny the tendencies of the times. Separation of the two groups of students is being considered and has been considered. Yale is pondering the Third College at this moment. But as long as such steps as the Reading Period innovation are being taken, it is imperative to recognize the fact that only about half the undergraduate body is benefited. On all too many has the latest seed from University Hall been wasted. Then in the future only the appreciative would have the opportunities presented...
With the action of the Student Council in expurging from its constitution Clause VI included under the Powers of the Council, the long-debated instrument is finally ready for ratification. In itself a matter of little moment, the clause which would theoretically have empowered the Council to "prevent any-man who shows an indisposition to respect its recommendations from becoming or remaining a member of any organization open to free competition," has served to show the attitude of the Administrative Board toward undergraduate affairs...
...careers of self-made men there is always a moment when someone they are working for discovers their ambition. That moment came for Robert Dollar when the camp superintendent found him trying to learn arithmetic. The superintendent had him trained to keep accounts. At 21 Robert Dollar was a lumber camp boss. He got $26 a month and saved his money. He began to pay installments on a farm, bossing a camp of 60 lumberjacks. "I never had to smoke or drink to make them know I was the boss...
...triumph, the moment in the fable of success in which he had demonstrated to all the world how far he had come from his job as chore boy. Success did not mean relaxation. Asked when he will retire, he jerks his thumb toward the ground "When I'm down there. . . . Wouldn't last long if I sat down and stopped...