Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...derisive laughter several times during his plea that "floods, mud and storms at sea" have so delayed transmission of the Lytton Report on Japan's occupation of Manchuria that release and discussion of the Report by the Council must be long delayed. League presses were at that very moment printing the report for, as China's Dr. W. W. Yen scathingly observed, there happen to be such things as telegraphs, cables and radio...
...which the Bisons suffered at the hands of Cornell last Saturday, the University coaches are regretting that they were unable to obtain an opening game opponent more capable of testing their second and third teams, which constitute the chief problem of Coach Casey and his assistants at the present moment...
...live to the end of time. It has a universal human appeal. It is more conservative to tie up to horse racing as a steady income than to football, which has indeed proved a paying investment in recent years, but which may go bad in the market at any moment, like many other investments that seemed so fair only three years ago. Think what a pot of money a Harvard-Yale horse race would take...
After having watched his men go through a grass drill, Coach Bond characterized the group as looking better than last year's turnout. The squad at the moment possesses plenty of material for the backfield and in the way of guards and tackles, but the ends are light and the centres weak...
...lined streets of Princeton lay immemorially somnolent. In the buff colonial parallelepiped that is Nassau Hall, the permanent cogs of Princeton University prepared in time-honored fashion to open the college, not particularly exercised over the fact that higher education in the U. S. faced a trying moment, and that Princeton, one of the traditional leaders of U. S. pedagogy, was at a corner in its course through its second century...