Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard was rowing the Columbia graduates that afternoon. And the Lions were hitting on all eight cylinders. The race got underway. Columbia went ahead a little, but Harvard was not far behind. The Crimson giants were waiting for the proper moment to turn on the heat...
...Freshman diamonders will entertain Thayer Academy. Tomorrow they will face B. U. at Riverside. Tom Bilodeau, heavy hitter of the yearlings, who can play almost any one of the nine positions of a baseball team and play them well, is the leading star of the yearlings at the moment. He's the best looking baseball player-to enter Harvard in several years...
...England, parent of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., was founded in 1903 by the son of a miller. As a boy, Hon. Charles Stuart Rolls, son of Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester, he had just...
After this tirade directed at the absent Hurley. Wilkins drops for a moment into a pitying attitude. Not a feeling of futility, for the confidence of the rest of the letter shows the supreme faith in Gill's show. The pity is, however, that this "crude, undigested, and immature assortment of rambling remarks" is bent on the destruction of the "character and brilliant accomplishments of a public official who for more than six years has struggled to give the Commonwealth honest and capable service...
...love with her, Anitra did not return the emotion until young Pianist Strakosh burst on her view. But alas, the new fashion of "unhappy endings"' dictated that Anitra should be carried off by a sudden hemorrhage, with Strakosh absent on a triumphant concert tour, and just at the moment when Papa Bruno at last conquered the impasse of his unfinished theme. Physical to a pungent degree, Author Hurst handles her characters with caressing fingers that are impatient of clothes, is sometimes betrayed into descriptions so accurate that they seem hermaphroditic fancies: "He beat his breasts. Literally that was true...