Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory Britain's Budget is one of her deepest State secrets. Only the Prime Minister and half a dozen of the highest Treasury officers are supposed to know its make-up before it is "opened" in the House of Commons. Until the moment of delivery it is kept locked in an ancient red morocco budget box. To be sure that the box will open at the right moment, a Government locksmith calls annually on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to oil the lock and fiddle with...
...think of was : "When the Labor Party was in power ... it received in reparations [from Germany] ?54,000,000 and paid the United States ?46,500,000. The National Government has received only ?800,000 in reparations, and paid the United States ?32,500,000." This seemed an excellent moment for moon-faced Winston Churchill to rise and call the Commons' attention to his own conduct as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1924 to 1929. Said...
...party, on the other hand, if casual, was at least certain, and if this is not the case at the Philadelphia convention, it will be most unusual. The obvious inference is that Massachusetts Republicans voted for Landon because he is the most in the limelight at the present moment, an uncertain reason at best. If the hopes of the G. O. P. are going to come true, it must back a candidate with more qualifications than the fact that there doesn't seem to be any one else to bear the standard...
Some "giant molecules" of organic tissue are so long that, although their net charge is zero or nearly zero, the positive charge is concentrated at one end, the negative at the other end. The distance between them is a factor in the dipole moment, which is, roughly speaking, a measure of electric leverage. Dr. Cohn measured the charges and the dipole moments by observing molecular behavior under a bombardment of radio waves. If some stimulus discharged the positive tension at one end, the negative charge would redistribute itself, affecting other molecules. If these molecules twitched in response to the charge...
...late. There may have been war in 1839 between Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss, the waltz-king and the brilliant rebel, but that war had more melody and harmony than a hundred years of our stodgy peace. At any rate, open dissension is boiling away at the very moment when Sir Philip, Superintendent of the Court of Balls, emissary of Queen Victoria, arrives in Vienna to choose the best orchestra to carry the waltz to England. For this reason, it is two hostile factions that bring the leaping sound to the court at London, and the war continues on foreign...