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
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 presence of r, and the turning of mens into mentum, are minor difficulties.
From Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 by Various
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)
