Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above all, Hichens and Hutchinson last week bore witness to the long lives of second-rate writers. For the fluent second-rate writer works regular hours, takes care of himself, makes good investments, usually writes one best-seller and at last acquires a kind of momentum which enables him to go on selling novels that no young novelist could get published...
...Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large a margin that he was talked of for the 1932 Presidential nomination. His boom died without an echo, but he had accumulated enough momentum for a full Senate term...
...horse's bones are not extraordinarily brittle, but a horse's weight and its momentum often produce breaks that are too much for veterinary skill or owner's purse. But veterinary surgeons can heal many a horse's broken leg. One method: Cincinnati dentist, Dr. Peter Wehner, uses a cast made of dental stone, says he can mend even a compound fracture. Though Dr. Wehner has successfully treated four race horces, none of his patients has raced again...
...when the German body put on a brown shirt. From Germany the cult spread to France, England and the U. S., where it was popularly regarded as high-class burlesque. By 1934, however, there were 300,000 serious-minded nudists in the U. S., and the movement gathered momentum until the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral. Bona fide nudists denounced the show, and indignant opinion throughout the country drove nudism under cover. Last fortnight the American Sunbathing Association...
...restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. . . ." Same week that this tempered but widely publicized kick issued from the Exchange, stock prices, having climbed back to 190, again turned down in the beginning of the worst crash since 1929. As the toboggan gathered momentum, President Gay began to seem a seer and SEC was on the spot. SEC chairman then was amiable James McCauley Landis, who was so busy retiring to become dean of Harvard Law School that he scarcely bothered to reply to Broker...