Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College Tutoring Bureau has been set upon by a New York publisher who objects, and in strenuous wise, to their unsanctioned sale of text outlines. Diverted for a moment from their cheery task of pillaging the Freshman till, the Bureau responds with a shocked innocence, that such things have always been, and implies that the pre-final period is a rather nasty time to bring it all up anyway. Meanwhile, cocking its ear towards the Yard, the Bureau professes to find a murmur against an intolerance so fatal...
...church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his boot, with a feeling of wonder. Falling in with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul in a boat, but his more mundane friends, drag him off on their worldly course. The Easter afternoon blurs and shimmers in a quintessential furor of sheer delight. The Vagabond realizes that Nirvana is near...
...Mate Deal detailed what he saw, heard and did from the moment the Akron cast off from Lakehurst at 7:30 p. m. April 3, bound for the New England coast. He related his last conversation with Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, the most distinguished victim of the disaster...
...winning three of the remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison Square Garden crowd was throwing newspapers, programs, orange peels, cigarets, candy-wrappers on the ice when the swift pendulum that is the pattern of a close hockey game paused for a moment as Bun Cook of the Rangers scored the first goal. Cecil Dillon of the Rangers scored the second, a minute later, before the first period was three-quarters over. That settled the game. Discouraged as well as tired, the Maple Leafs played unsuccessfully defensive hockey for the next two periods. Dillon...
...exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what he thinks about during his twice-daily moment of congealed concentration, he says: "I think what a hell of a responsibility...