Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Jones listened in the House Press Gallery, he heard fellow Democrats on the floor denounce the RFC as a tool of the bankers, heard Republicans champion it as the salvation of the country. No G.O.Partisan forgot for a moment that it was President Herbert Hoover who had the RFC created in January 1932, and who, by proclamation, continued it for a second year. When Franklin Roosevelt became President, he scorned this Old Deal agency for many a month, allowed it to lapse almost out of sight. When he finally got around to coordinating it into his recovery program...
...this an old world was not destroyed to build up a new one later; rather the newly-arriving world has overcome the old. At no moment of our National Socialist revolution did there arise a vacuum. At no stage of our advance and our battles was there chaos. The least sanguinary revolution of world history was yet one of its most decisive...
...objects. By the time they were 6, that external interest had shifted largely to persons. "The pre-school child," Dr. Fisher reported, "is a confirmed egotist and extremely sociable. He satisfies both needs by talking incessantly to other people, telling them whatever he happens to be doing at the moment...
...Yesterday began a winter count. Men of practiced ability are at this moment stationed from Long Island to Yucatan, to simultaneously report on the winter resting grounds of ducks and geese. The spring flight will be closely watched and the 1935 nesting conditions again observed. On the tabulated results of these observations the Biological Survey will make its recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture and the President for next year's migratory waterfowl regulations. The first consideration will be the preservation of a safe margin of population among the ducks, I assure...
...against rat typhus (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). Though the mortality rate of typhus under normal circumstances is low, it does run as high as 60% in a severe epidemic. An attack lasts about two weeks, leaves no marked after effects. Though Plague No. 1 is nowhere epidemic at the moment, Professor Zinsser warns: "Typhus is not dead. It will live on for centuries, and it will continue to break into the open whenever human stupidity and brutality give it a chance, as most likely they occasionally will. But its freedom of action is being restricted, and more and more...