Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment of cogitation, tell him what day of the week it had been...
...play dragged on so long that its last six scenes had to be cut because the stagehands wanted to go home. At Sing Sing, where going home is more of a problem, the audience was far more patient and sympathetic, hated to have to stop for dinner. When the moment came to judge the defendant, the prisoners shouted a vociferous "Not Guilty," were rewarded with a happy ending instead of the electric chair...
Warming to his subject, Mr. Lake began to attack theories more closely associated with the University. In supporting the classical education, however, he put his money on a losing horse. This type of education, was doomed the moment subjects were found that offered, in addition to the discipline of Latin, Greek, and Aramaic, instruction of a practical nature...
...seclusion, she seems to the Vagabond to be resting, waiting, watching; perhaps she is to play the role of Phillip of Macedon who too watched and waited while his neighbors exhausted themselves with incessant warfare. Like Phillip she may be waiting for one last destructive war, waiting for the moment to swoop down from the north, destroy her foolish, petty, squabbling neighbors, and build a new civilization on the ruins...
...swatting flies on a windowpane. The principle is the same as that of the old-fashioned player piano, minus that part of the machinery which does the actual pressing & releasing of the keys. A motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees a flash he pounces. While the Piano Master requires a specially built piano, a modification, the Key Master, may be fitted to any old family upright. The Key Master flashes lights in a dummy keyboard above the keys. So highly does Chicago...