Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divested of his shirt, he lay for a moment on his bed high under the eaves. He pondered the remarkable similarity between the Model League of Nations and the Dartmouth Winter Carnival...
...business. Hence the return of the airmail service to private hands on the basis of 60-day contracts, which could be extended from time to time and cancellable whenever the provisions of the new law could be made operative, is the only thing that can be done at the moment to save the thousands of employes who are losing their jobs...
There are estimates to the effect that about $20,000,000,000 of business of a replacement character is available the moment capital markets can be revived. The amendment of the securities act and the establishment of an intermediate credit system are two steps which have been delayed but which are deemed essential to the reopening of the heavier industries...
...emotion this expression seems most inadequate. One is tempted to say that a dramatic or narrative form of poetry would be far better. But O'Neill has previously expressed the thoughts and feelings of his characters in a poetic prose that sounded their depths. There is only one moment, the last scene in the play, which approaches a full poetic expression of what the dramatist means. Both dramatically and poetically "Days Without End" seems to be peculiarly deficient in communication...
...dislocation of a few businesses or industries in this or that section is not troubling the Administration at the moment. It is convinced that planned economy, with its surgical operations, is the maximum good for the maximum number. The people wanted a new deal--they are getting it. And hence painful readjustments must be left to the wisdom of the administration, which is just as anxious as anybody to find the right answer...