Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than it is this side of the border. He stated that in his opinion the Canadian students are barder workers and live more simply than those in the United States. "You're the richest country in the world, you know," he added, "even if you are having your bad moment...
...From the moment he took office President Roosevelt realized that he was in a relentless race against the sun on farm relief. His purpose was to outsprint nature to planting time. In his special farm message last month he warned Congress that "if we wait for another month or six weeks the effect on the prices of this year's crops will be wholly lost." Infected with his sporting spirit, the House passed his bill with blind speed. But the Senate sets itself above sun and seasons. Its refusal to compete with nature last week threatened to wreck...
Again the storm dashed the great ship downward, and this time clawed away a section of her belly fabric and part of her rudder. Again ballast was dumped; but the ship did not rise. Down, down she went-CRASH-upon the surface of the writhing sea. For a brief moment the 110-ton hulk floated while its buoyant helium hissed away into the gale. Then the pounding waves wrenched it to bits. Here and there, by the occasional brilliance of the lightning flashes, a witness could have discerned men of the Akron flailing about in the water...
...dead great looked down. In a corner of the room sat fashionable Portrait Painter Sir John Lavery, sketching the scene. Now & then Duveen looked quickly toward him. Back in his studio Sir John set up a big canvas and went to work to preserve Lord Duveen's big moment for posterity in full color & detail...
...From the moment Henry Ford gave him his first big tire order some 30 years ago, Harvey Samuel Firestone has been one of Mr. Ford's few close friends. The friendship explains a great deal about Mr. Firestone. Mr. Ford never lifts his spear without waggling it at bankers. Mr. Firestone's particular windmill is the mailorder tire. Each has a brand of individualism...