Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universal protection of candidates, the rebroadcast of a man's remarks days or years later should not be permitted to go out on the ether. Such mechanical repetition deprives him of the opportunity to change his mind or adapt his arguments to the moment, or in any way to clarify his position. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, for instance, could not have taken place had Douglas been a dummy or a red scal record. Furthermore, at a time when many political voices are household property, the unsophisticated listener may have difficulty deciding which is the real speaker and which the ghost...
Time hangs lightly on the Vagabond's hands. It dangles there, a flimsy rainbow bubble, catches the sun a moment and disappears...
...fact, the German show opened with more of a bang than was intended. At the last moment lawyers discovered that, though property of German individuals and of the German Reich was safe from legal action, holders of defaulted German municipal bonds might possibly be able to seize pictures belonging to German municipal museums. Twenty-six pictures were hastily withdrawn, including two fine Holbeins, a Dűrer, three Altdorfers and two portraits by famed Bartholomaeus Bruyn. In the 81 paintings and 150 drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important...
...What comes back when I recall the attempt to reduce my body temperature? Certain effects on the heart were interesting but in no way arresting, but what comes back is the effect on my mind. In each of the two experiments which I performed there was a moment when my whole mental outlook altered. As I lay naked in the cold room I had been shivering and my limbs had been flexed in a sort of effort to huddle up, and I had been very conscious of the cold. Then a moment came when I stretched out my legs...
Like most apparent miracles, football's most dramatic moment of last, week was really no miracle at all. In piling up a record which, with a victory over Michigan this week, will equal Notre Dame's record string of 20 in a row, Minnesota has become famed as a team that does not reach maximum efficiency until the second half of its games. A decade ago Minnesota teams were feared solely for the Norse power supplied to them by the huge muscular Swedes with which they were amply staffed. The current increase in Minnesota's football prestige...