Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if the Council has voted the subject down for the moment, the slight, if highly commendable, action it did take to cooperate with the Houses indicates that the problem is a very real one and therefore will, as the Houses become increasingly important, crop up again. When it does the Council should not simply meet it by such stop-gap measures as it took last night but must take the bull by the horns and make real provision through constitutional means...
...economic queen grandly surveyed the chasm for a moment, looked at the sign that hung over it; then barked an order down the yawning abyss. We watched, fascinated. In a minute a lily-white parcel, wrapped in tissue and tied with a red ribbon, sailed out into the air. She circled under it, like a fairy quarterback, nabbed it, and, darting into her car, vanished in the rtaffic...
...their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened to fire the building. Undeterred, police called for the fire department and prepared to storm the plant if the sit-downers would not surrender. At that tense moment Dr. Towne Nylander, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, went in and announced that the Labor Board would hold hearings on charges that Douglas Aircraft had discriminated against union employes and refused to bargain collectively, urged the strikers to give up. Believing that they would be licked...
...next to youngest of the Pereyra Iraolas' seven children, 2-year-old Eugenio, was playing on La Sorpresa's big lawn and had just had his dinner. His mother left Eugenio to his nurse to welcome her husband on his return. The nurse left Eugenio for a moment. When she returned he was gone. The nurse and the Pereyra Iraolas frantically searched the woods at the edge of the park. Then to the gate of La Sorpresa two miles away cracked a grim order from Rancher Pereyra Iraola that no one should be allowed to leave. By telephone...
...pounds, a height advantage of five inches, the huge Tiger is more brute strength than skill and agility, and the 1000 people who came to see the meet watched the Crimson lad win an exciting match in overtime, a match in which feeling run so high that for a moment the two grapplers forgot it was wrestling and not boxing that they were engaged...