Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum to keep the story rolling to a climax where she and Jack wed, produce twins resembling the embattled comics...
Brown has a formidable defensive line and a resourceful set of backfield men. The Bruins started slowly this fall but have begun to pick up momentum in recent weeks. Holy Cross, Yale, and Army are the last three victims of Coach McLaughry's alert squad...
...riders are tacked on to the program by the H.S.U. It is sincerely seeking unity on the single issue of keeping Americans out of the war, not quibbling about aid to England or to Moscow. But if the "No Wilson Promises" movement is to survive and gain momentum, it desperately needs wider support than the Student Union alone can provide. This is no time to be snooty or cynical. If we don't want our guts blasted out in a futile attempt to invade the continent of Europe, the President must be held to his solemn pledge to keep this...
...most prominently at Dartmouth and Tufts in the East; Claremont, which includes several lesser institutions, on the Pacific coast; and at Duke in the South. At all these places the feeling among the faculty is in general support of the beliefs favored by our committee and there is considerable momentum in the movements...
...particular Harlow stressed precision and polish in the operation of an offense that he hopes will gain momentum tomorrow for the first time this season...