Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is true, I wonder why the Almighty has not punished the factory owners, who through these years have stopped production the moment they could no longer make profit...
...cancellation of all airmail contracts, according to the story told in Washington, was not of his doing. Senator Black, disappointed that his investigation had produced no appreciable public response, went to the White House to suggest action. Against the advice of his Postmaster General the President, in a moment of righteous enthusiasm, decided to annul the contracts, and announced cancellation from the White House over Mr. Farley's name. When the action proved a political mistake, a man in whom some other attachment came before loyalty might have acted differently from Mr. Farley. But he entered no disclaimer when...
...years ago Columbia University psychologists took charge of a brace of identical twin boys the moment they were born to irregularly employed Manhattan parents. As a scientific experiment in deportment development Johnny was to be "conditioned" by special training and exercises whereas Jimmy was to be allowed to grow up naturally. By last winter Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw had 19-month-old Johnny boldly swimming, diving, climbing, jumping, roller-skating-accomplishments far beyond the ability of untrained Jimmy (TIME...
Good St. Anne, by all the suffering and ignominy which thou didst endure, during the 20 years that preceded thy glorious maternity, by thy love for St. Joachim, thy glorious spouse, by thy love for Mary, thy immaculate child, and by the great joy thou didst feel at the moment of her birth, I beseech thee to grant my ardent request...
...Church councils belongs the doctrine that Mary, who gave Virgin Birth to Jesus, was without sin from the moment of conception in her mother's womb (Immaculate Conception). Since the apocryphal account of Joachim and Hannah is obviously a reproduction of the Biblical story of Samuel's conception by Hannah (I Kings, 1-2:21), Catholic theologians concede that from a scholarly viewpoint the life and even the name of Jesus' must remain in doubt...