Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Junior Class may vote for the 1938 nominees; every man in this Class should vote for six. Only Sophomores may vote in the 1939 election and may vote for three men. Unsigned ballots will be thrown out. Only men registered in these two classes at the moment may vote...
...only gives birth to a child destined to die an early but slow and happy death; it also enlivens the soul of Man. It quickens the beat of his heart and draws the dopey poison of winter from his veins. Man is momentarily aware of joy. For a moment he lefts his eyes from his book, takes his glass from his lips, or looks away from the little white ball on the tee and embraces a nebulous, exhilarating something. He is filled with urgings. Surely it is either a strong-willed or unfeeling individual who can learn chemical formulas...
After the race was over. Kurtsinger said: "There was nothing to it." This was an exaggeration but after the first turn, there was never a moment when it looked as though War Admiral might lose. Coming into the stretch, Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon challenged him for the lead. Jockey Kurtsinger touched War Admiral once with his whip and drew away. At the end of the race. War Admiral was going easily, almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field...
...Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck in the ceiling, but as dramaturgy it is more convincingly dead than any of Dr. Mason's victims...
Killers of the Sea shows Caswell wrestling and subduing a 12-ft. bottle-nosed killer whale, a gigantic snapping sea turtle, an octopus, a sawfish and a tiger shark. There are many repetitions of the dramatic moment when, spying some deep-sea enemy, Caswell, "The Man of Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence...