Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Becket concurred with the King's wishes, we should have had an almost ideal state; a union of spiritual and temporal administration, under the central government . . . And what happened? The moment that Becket, at the King's instance, had been made Archbishop . . . and he became more priestly than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish...
...every detail, even to the telltale vanished cigaret. A check on the fact that Fitts actually was holding a cigaret as he went to the operating room came from a picture in the Illustrated Daily News, which its man had snapped from another angle at the same moment the Times man got his shot...
...afterward. To all suggested topics for discussion at the White House, he replied either that he might bring them up if the spirit moved him, or that he would be glad to discuss them if the President wished to. Only one small slip did he make. Forgetting for the moment that the New Deal has taken many emergency measures and that his prospective host had proclaimed a New Crisis only the night before, he made a remark which, had it been intentional, would have been a slur on the President. Asked whether Canada in an emergency might be disposed...
This inaccuracy in equestrian art persisted until 1872, when patriarchal Governor Leland Stanford of California, a famed horse breeder, bet two cronies $25,000 that there is a moment in each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years and cost him $40,000 to win the bet. He hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten...
...dangerous up to the last moment on the football field, so it Kelley a dangerous man at all times on the court. In the game Yale played against Penn State the other night, the score stood at 31-29 against the Elis with but thirty seconds to play; Larry sunk two long shots to win the day in that closing half minute...