Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week, required two preliminary sessions. Sunday afternoon he spent an hour and a half priming Vice President Garner, Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Harrison, Speaker Bankhead, Representatives Rayburn, Buchanan and Doughton on the Re-organization Plan so that they would be prepared to defend it from the first moment that opposition reared its ugly head...
Journalistically the story was that of Cinderella reversed. A Crown Princess whose reigning mother is probably Europe's wealthiest woman was about to take as her Prince Consort a pleasant young German of excellent but impecunious family who might well be called Prince Cinderellus. From the moment of his marriage, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld receives a Civil List from the Dutch Treasury of 200,000 florins yearly...
...last moment, Prince Friedrich zu Wied, an ardent German Nazi who was to have acted as one of the bridegroom's witnesses, failed to come to The Hague, giving the excuse of "illness" which was known to be a fib. This so incensed Queen Wilhelmina that Her Majesty named to act as a witness in his place Professor Jan Huizinga, a Dutch writer of tart anti-Nazi tracts, under whom the Crown Princess once studied history. German correspondents who had come to cover the wedding promptly left The Hague in a huff, all except...
Although these prescriptions do not appeal to the self-indulgent side of any individual student's nature, a moment of consideration, must convince him of their validity. Stiff examinations, after all, help a man to measure his strength if he so desires, and to no other purpose can he conscientiously profess. Exhaustive inquiry into a single subject, moreover, is far and away superior to peering cautiously into a great many questions, only to scuttle away as soon as they begin to look difficult or exacting...
...Governor's decision to name Holmes to conduct the investigation of the farming school apparently was made on the spur of the moment at the annual meeting of the trustees of the State College...