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

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

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

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