Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excellent photography, direction, and acting contribute to the general merit of the picture. In its moving panorama, such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, and a certain Mr. Boswell all occupy the stage for one brief moment. The action, it must be admitted, is slow, but never does interest lag. Only two defects can be noticed--a drawn out conclusion tending toward anti-climax, and the uncertain Margaret Mitchell ending...
Acquiescence of God. The rest of the two-hour speech rambled over "German equality;" Bolshevism (Hitler is against it); Colonies (Hitler is for them, but at the moment not fervently, saying, "We make no colonial demands or claim against States which took no colonies away from us."*; Generalissimo Franco and his Spanish Whites (Hitler is for them);, the League of Nations (Hitler is against it); and Germany's further Rearmament under the Nazi Four-Year Plan (TIME, Sept. 21). In a final German outburst the Messiah, almost weeping, rejoiced that the Fatherland's "truest fighters [have] hung their...
...mine's open terrace workings, from which ore is grabbed by twelve mechanical shovels, the dynamite had been laid. All was nearing readiness for the festive blowoff and the newshawks, standing at a safe distance, plugged their ears, braced themselves for the shock. At that moment an electric engine rolled up drawing two cars of black powder. Five workmen and a foreman started unloading...
...Museum's president, canny John Stogdell ("Stog") Stokes, had staged his act with great skill. With thousands of Philadelphians who had never been near his imposing yellow limestone building sweeping through the doors, now vas his moment to launch a drive he had long been planning: a campaign to raise $15,500,000 for his institution in the next ten years...
...interrupted by catcalls, loud expressions of dissent and ironic cries of "Vive la Banque!" Wide open was the governor to shareholders' jokes, for his report, written a while before, was crammed with cheer, confidence and numerous vows to defend the franc and the low rediscount rate. At the moment the franc was sinking, the Bank of France had just hiked the rediscount rate from 2% to 4% and the state of the franc required Britain's aid in the form of a $250,000,000 loan...