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
Fallitur, ad mentum qui pendit quemque profundum, Ceu possint laeves nil sapuisse genae.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
The remarkable tripartite mentum he thinks should not be compared with the bipartite mentum of Leptinus, and calls attention to the fact that in Ancistrona in Mallophaga it is also trilobed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
M. Stokes of 1531 wrote this distich on him:— 'Os, oculi, mentum, dens, guttur, lingua, palatum Sunt tibi; sed nasus, Trimbale, dic ubi sit?'
From Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 by Various
