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

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

Buccal fissure: the mouth slit or opening: the opening on each side of the mentum.

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

What all authors have agreed in calling the mentum is very noticeable, being large and broad, and trilobed behind.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various