Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration was on the eve of a change, a New Deal. When that prospect was threatened last week by crazy bullets fired at the President-elect in Miami, people seemed to feel that their faith in the future was also the assassin's target. At a tense psychological moment, Mr. Roosevelt's escape and cheerful reaction had a buoyant effect far beyond anything President Hoover could have said or done...
...narrative concerns a young betting clerk who volunteers, in a moment of national crisis, to die in the name of "Anonymous Ireland." Put into a cell with the leader of the rebellion, he discovers that the leader is not a man, but a woman in disguise. The resulting complications destroy the happiness which he had found in the prospect of sacrifice; when he is released instead of being shot, readjustment is impossible, and leads him at the end of the book to a situation of deliberately chosen incongruity...
...were attempting to crush the Riffs. In 1923 the Italians bombarded Corfu. In 1929 the Chinese and Russians saw action in Manchuria. For the last few years Japan has been grappling with China in the same region; while in South America there has been continual friction. At the present moment Bolivia and Paraguay are in opposite trenches, Peru and Colombia began offensive operations, yesterday. All these minor wars, plus the Big Blow of 1914-1918, are well within the twenty years of progress mentioned by President Hoover...
...feel very strongly that the most serious handicap under which the tutors work at the moment is the inability of even the most willing students to give a sufficient amount of time to tutorial work. Pressure of courses, particularly for those who are dependent upon scholarship aid, makes it difficult for either students or tutors to do a thorough...
...bewildering moment it seemed as though a ventriloquist were taking part in the performance of Die Walküre given last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Soprano Frida Leider, singing Brünnhilde, had sunk limply to the ground, crushed by Wotan's wrathy reprimand. Feebly, brokenly she started remonstrating with him. Then her voice died away. Another soprano voice, shriller, more biting than Madame Leider's, came out from the wings, sang until Madame Leider, regaining her composure, stood up and finished the performance so capably that most of the audience thought their ears...