Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season. Di Maggio twisted some tendons in his knee getting out of a taxi. The Yankees let their option run last year, partly to give him more seasoning but more to make absolutely sure that he was not a physical wreck. There was one more anxious moment when it looked as if Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick. That came in the training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut at the Yankee Stadium...
Clephane's group had been trying to cast type from papier-mâché matrices indented by mechanically assembled characters. First big improvement suggested by Mergenthaler was to cast the type directly from an indented, metal matrix. Then, in an inspired moment, Mergenthaler conceived the idea of a freely circulating matrix which was brought into line to cast its character, returned to a magazine until needed again. To make the lines "justify" (i.e., come out even), wedge-shaped spaces were spread between the words...
...first crack of war Blum's Socialist-Communist supporters in France would be overwhelmed by Frenchmen carrying not the red flag but the tricolor. "On different occasions Chancellor Hitler has proclaimed his wish for an understanding with France!" cried M. Delbos. "We do not for one moment intend to question the word of a former combatant who during four years experienced the misery of the trenches...
...have unrestricted entrance and egress, while nonBlack Sea countries should have their war boats virtually excluded. A dextrous word wangler, Comrade Litvinoff favored the Conference with his explanation of why the Red Navy, although "wholly not aggressive," must be able to rush out of its Black Sea at any moment. The reason is, according to the Soviet Foreign Minister, that units of the Bolshevik fleet have to make "courtesy visits" constantly to other Russian ports. Comrade Litvinoff did not think foreign warships could make courtesy visits to Black Sea ports without incurring suspicion that their purpose was "aggressive." To Turkish...
...Mother Schmeling, her son and daughter-in-law were lunching festively with Adolf Hitler, the Party's afternoon newsorgan Der Angriff printed a special edition explaining that Louis was defeated because before the fight Schmeling "was allowed to speak with the Realmleader and his Ministers, and from that moment Schmeling's will for victory was boundless...