Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal he completely ignored, exactly as they have been ignored by the opposition press, which has been concentrating on the construction of some of the most elaborate and ridiculous straw men ever built. The doctor solemnly applied the match to these straw men, never for a moment indicating what his innate good sense assured him: that he knew the straw was flimsy and cheap and smelly with...
...musical score written on the spur of the moment by Virgil Thomson, is ready now and will be played during the play by undergraduates in the Music Department...
From admittedly incomplete information, it would appear that Japan feels the moment appropriate to extend the claims made in the Twenty-one Demands of 1915. Thwarted at that time, chiefly by untimely publicity, in her endeavors to establish a virtual protectorate over China, she managed deftly to acquire a strangling grasp on certain important Chinese economic interests, such as the Han-Yehping mines, as well as significant privileges in Manchuria. Her recent advances in this tremendously important region need no comment, and these are being supplemented by subterranean movements in Mongolia and Sinkiang. From these it would appear, with little...
There is a group of carefree young men in our midst for whom the consideration for one moment of a serious thought would be an ennui too great to be borne. For such, anything so hopelessly antediluvian as an ideal is excruciatingly funny. Well, gentlemen, it is not without the bounds of possibility for this tremendous joke to turn into a poetically just and ghastly ironic nightmare. If the country's future is to be guided by the harebrains which Friday's farce disclosed--God help the country. Sedgwick Mead...
...history of the present day, unfolding as it does at more than ten times the rate of the epochs that characterize the usual study of history, manifests itself brutally and almost unbelievably in "The Roosevelt Year." There is no unthinking moment of any public person, no hideous finals of criminal or unfortunate to which the omnipresent photographer has not penetrated...