Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment at every fair is the grand balloon ascension. One night last week at the world's greatest fair. 40,000 persons crowded into Chicago's Soldier Field to see what promised to be the greatest balloon ascension ever made-a flight to the stratosphere by Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record...
...Observers at the Conference eyed with interest stocky, rufous, sly-smiling President Leon Fraser of the B. I. S. Would he pop a plan for world finance before the Conference broke up? "Only like a hat trick at the last moment, if at all," was his evasive answer. And he popped no plan...
...Wall & La Salle Streets were busy -doing their best to raise a New Deal plunger to the stature of Chicago's old-time giants. From the moment that it was whispered that Doc Crawford was the plunger whom Secretary of Agriculture Wallace shamed as largely responsible for the crash in grain prices, the Crawford legend grew like a puffball. Last week auditors were plowing through the books in his tiny office at No. 60 Beaver St., Manhattan, trying to find out just where the secretive little onetime physician stood. Few believed that Doc Crawford was a ruined man. Though...
...Empress, after a single brief but courteous glance at this newcomer, had returned to the business which had been occupying her at the moment of Lord Tilbury's arrival. She pressed her shapely nose against the lowest rail of the sty and snuffled moodily...
...moving moment came when grey-haired Superintendent of Schools William J. Bogan unexpectedly rose to address the meeting. Able and popular, he had been ignored by the Board in preparing its economy order. Said he: "I forced myself on this program because I am living in terror of the effect of the economies on the public schools. As I study these economies hour after hour, day after day, my, terror grows...