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

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

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

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