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
Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Cum sit uesta ponita10, doma tangit mentum; 24 Tunc in cute candida verrunt11 uermes centum.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
Body moderately elongated and covered with a long dark pubescence; spiracular disk squarely truncated, surrounded by five subequal stout lobes; mentum with five subequal teeth, the lateral one of either side not conspicuously reduced.Rhamphidaria.
From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Alexander, Charles P.
