Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downward movement has spent is force and would defer purchases until prices approach the 90 to 91 level, despite the probability of a moderate raliy. From the technical aspect the market is preparing for a ten-point movement from a mean level at 94, with its direction at the moment somewhat obscure the rails hold distinct possibilities if picked up on further reactions as do Johns Manville and American Radiator among the industrials...
...best place for a reporter to have covered the Stoll kidnapping would have been the press room of the Department of Justice, 600 mi. from the scene of the crime. Even information from one field man to another is cleared through the central Washington office. The moment Mrs. Stoll was released, the complete, authoritative story on the kidnapping went out from Washington. Attorney General Cummings took on last August as his special assistant one of the ablest and most reliable of Washington correspondents, Henry Suydam, long with the Brooklyn Eagle...
President Roosevelt has been cogitating that question. As a result the U. S. Delegation is fitted out with an elaborate sop to be offered at the right moment to Japan, a positively devilish sop in the opinion of Japanese sea dogs who hoped and prayed last week that it will not water down their human torpedo into a damp squib...
...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
Long lines of grey-clad soldiers stretch irregularly across the dawn-lit horizon. Armed guards, in muskrat headgear, move restlessly before swaying tents. Bonfires die out with each growing moment of dawn. Arms are gathered, stations called, ranks formed. Excitement and anticipation fill the camp. A huge gaunt figure, hatless and cloakless, sweeps imperiously on a white charger to the front of the newly formed platoons. This man commands attentions, respect, admiration, fear. Ranks become straighter, shoulders stiffer, guns arched higher. His voice booms like a cannon through the crisp morning air: "Comrades, this is an historic moment. All Europe...