Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most thrilling moment--when does it come? Many have been the sporting situations in fiction and in fact which have been pictured to bring home this sensation, but to those who have ever seen the start of a varsity race in the annual Intercollegiate Regatta at Poughkeepsie there can be no other most thrilling moment. It's there, and it's got everything that goes to give any fun excitement and gooseflesh...
Lawrence B. Sperry (late inventor of the automatic gyro-pilot): "To show how it could fly the plane with his hands off the controls, he was demonstrating this to a girl friend he had with him, by a little conservative lovemaking. At that moment the stabilizer went wrong and the [flying] boat went into a vicious spin, and the two were found pretty much in each other's arms, very severely injured...
...case of the class officers, limiting the number of men nominated to fill the various posts, and recommending that the Union Committee nominate the men instead of the Student Council; and, in the case of the Union Committee, suggesting that the appointment be delayed until the last possible moment, so that the Secretary of the Union would be able to see what men, who had been successful in preparatory school, were fitting well into the college group. We rapidly found, however, that it made little difference whether or not the various positions were well filled, for neither the Union Committee...
...with the French Line Chairman Marcel Olivier aboard, was shoved off by ten frantically churning tugs while Bretons, gathered from miles around, cheered and whooped in the rain. Hardly had the Normandie cleared the first buoy when driving mists shut her out of sight from shore. Most ticklish moment came when she was eased past the sunken wreck of the Beignon. Then the four largest electric motors in the world began to turn the Normandie's four propellers, each with a diameter equal to the height of a two-story house, and out into the murk she thrust...
...Fifth Avenue Surgery of Dr. J. Eastman Sheehan, which envious doctors say is the world's most gorgeous consultation establishment. There are two butlers, a general manager (Henry Osman), a secretary and blonde Hilda Krupp, the housekeeper who stands by all day so that at any moment the Doctor may have his whittled asparagus, hamburgers or sausages, toast, strawberry jam and tea. Hilda also presses his suits (25 at a time), rolls bandages, keeps everybody cheerful, including Henry who has most to do with the patients' bills (up to $10,000 for an operation, $75 for a house...