mentum

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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

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

Anthobian: feeding on flowers; applied to certain lamellicorn Coleoptera in which the labium extends beyond the mentum.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

The presence of r, and the turning of mens into mentum, are minor difficulties.

From Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 by Various

Natura enim rerum omnibus viventibus indidit mentum ac formidinem, vitae atque essentiae suae conservatricem, ac mala ingruentia vitantem et depellentem.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)