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
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
The mentum carries at its extremity a pair of lobes with sharp fangs.
From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)
A receding, as it were, a cut-away chin is particularly repellent, because mentum prominulum is a characteristic belonging exclusively to our species.
From Essays of Schopenhauer by Schopenhauer, Arthur
