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 mentum carries at its extremity a pair of lobes with sharp fangs.

From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)

Hypopharyngeal sclerites: in bees, a pair of strap-like pieces along the hypopharynx to the mentum: see also epipharyngeal sclerites.

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

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