Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reviewed every year. ... If the air estimates were brought in this day, or if a statement were made this day with regard to any increase in the air force, it might well be months before a pound could be spent. . . . These very points are at this moment under consideration . . . so if our fears are realized not a single day will have been lost...
Last week when the peasants heard the child screaming in the birch forest they paused in fright for a moment, then rushed bravely to the rescue. And they caught the vampire, a wild-eyed, tattered boy stabbing wildly at a little girl...
...cheering, raving mob. His automobile inched slowly along, finally collapsed in the crush of admirers climbing upon it. At his home he walked out on the balcony to speak but the great, warm roar of the mob drowned out his words. He went back inside, stood uncertainly for a moment listening. Then he keeled over in a faint...
Besides the Woolworth design, Mr. Gilbert's greatest-in-size was the huge George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, for which he was consultant architect and which, against his wishes, was never encased in granite. Two Gilbert buildings were in construction at the moment of his death: the new $9,700,000 U. S. Supreme Court building in Washington (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a $10,700,000 Federal Court House for Manhattan...
Until the present moment, however, the spirit offensive-defensive alliances between great powers, so vexing to pre-war Europe, has not arisen to trouble the waters. Now, apparently credible reports indicate that the former charming friendship between France and Russia is being restored. Amusingly enough, the moves in the game are strikingly like those from 1890 onward. First, the generals discuss military problems and an "understanding" is reached. Either concurrently or shortly afterward, this is supplemented by a political agreement. As in 1894, these preliminaries will now probably be completed by a treaty of military assistance. If France succeeds...