Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even get the manuscript into my hands for a moment to give you an exact estimate of its length, so anxiously is our leader guarding...
...favorite Bonette stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free...
...first conflict came when Mr. Pecora tried to spread on the record one more subject of intense curiosity, the articles of copartnership in the House of Morgan, showing exactly how responsibility and profits are divided. Mr. Davis insisted the articles were "strictly private." The issue was dropped for the moment but later in executive session the committee decided to demand to see the articles...
...metamorphosis was watched with interest by a onetime assistant editor of College Humor, George Teeple Eggleston, now editor of Life. To him it seemed a strategic moment. He went to his boss, Publisher Clair Maxwell, persuaded him that Life ought, for the first time in 50 years, to publish something besides Life. The result appeared this week-the first issue of University. Like College Humor twelve years ago, University was tentatively begun as a quarterly. Price...
...closing hours of the academic year, becalmed in the brief time before the storm of examinations, the Freshman class has an opportunity for thought and reflection over the events of the last nine months; a few of its thinkers will ponder for a moment on that Institution, the Freshman Adviser. Some have formed a close friendship with the man who was set to guide them; others have been helped by his advice; a considerable number have been deceived by his honeyed praise of this or that course; and the great majority will have forgotten him by the time they purchase...