Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating fresh chaos as they laid waste the $100,000,000 of Japanese property in the city...
...Post from stem to stern, finally becoming president of the whole Curtis group (Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) when the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis resigned in 1932. Last week's year-end board meeting seemed strange without Mr. Lorimer. It brought together at a dramatic moment the men (it took more than one man to succeed George Horace Lorimer) who twelve months ago took charge of the publishing giant he created almost singlehanded...
...more successful nowadays, but the patient must have absolute rest until the stitches are absorbed and the tissue heals. Until then, any exertion may burst the seam, loosing a fatal spout of blood from the heart. Therefore Joe's nurse, wanting to leave the room for a moment, warned him not to move while she was gone. That was two days after Christmas...
...finds him in the arms of his stage partner, "Your husband." Perhaps you are the kind who can overlook the bad and remember only the good; then, you will long enjoy such lines as the one by Mr. Howard kissing the lovely Olivia de Havilland, who at the same moment espies her rival Miss Davis looking on with great interest...
...large courses in other fields where examinations are not marked blindly there is apt to exist injustice; knowing the owner of a paper, an instructor is influenced by personal feeling. At all times, however, a grade is subject to the correcter's whim and mood of the moment...