mentum
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On the Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened.
From Time Magazine Archive
Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Body moderately elongated and covered with a long dark pubescence; spiracular disk squarely truncated, surrounded by five subequal stout lobes; mentum with five subequal teeth, the lateral one of either side not conspicuously reduced.Rhamphidaria.
From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Alexander, Charles P.
The eruption first broke out upon the chin, whence it was called Mentagra, and is thus alluded to by Martial: Non ulcus acre, pustulæve lucentes; Nec triste mentum, sordidive lichenes.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
D, Lower lip: d1, submentum; d2, mentum; d3, labial palp; d4, glossa; d5, paraglossa.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
