Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depression cut into the revenues of Ballard's French Lick and West Baden business and one day in August 1934, realizing that he was over 60, he came suddenly to a decision. No Catholic, Ballard on the inspiration of the moment presented his huge circular West Baden Springs Hotel (once valued at $3,000,000) as a gift to the Jesuits, to be turned into a college. Before the day was out he called his cousin and employe, Norman Ballard, into his office and sold him Brown's and the Gorge, a neighboring gambling place. By nightfall...
...Said the Times: "That Roosevelt appreciates his new strength and that he means to use it for the good not merely of his own country but of the world is the conviction of everyone who has followed his previous performance. It is a matter of supreme importance at the moment, when English-speaking nations are becoming more isolated as the champions of Democracy in a world 'blown about by all the winds of doctrine...
Touching on external policy he blandly said: "At the moment it is not our intention to change existing relations with the British Commonwealth except in so far as use is made of the same machinery utilized by Canada, New Zealand and Australia. . . . I regret our relations are no better than they were with Britain. The British Government still exacts payments through penal tariffs of a sum of money we say is not due. We do not propose to pay it. The Irish people have not surrendered, and are not going to surrender. . . . However, I am certain that this Constitution will...
...Gaffney then spoke of the football season, saying that the squad at the moment was "in the best physical and mental condition" that it has been this year...
...sinner! consider the fearful danger you are in. 'Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit. . . that you are held over in the hand of God. . . You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have. . . nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath. . . nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment...