Word: amid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with horrified amazement and with an overwhelming sense of incredulity that we have read of the proposed abolishment of "love" from the game of tennis. No more is that soft-sounding epithet to be applied to one's opponent or oneself amid the thuds of racquet against ball. One-in, two-out, three-all replace the dulcet tones of fifteen-love, and love-thirty, and the dignified basso of dence...
Different from anything yet taken up amid the mass of talk and writing on the League of Nations is the subject. The Religious Aspect of the League of Nations" chosen by Dr. Elmer A. Leslie he will lead a discussion on the question from this point of view at the meeting of the University Christian Association on Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning from 9.30 until...
...association thus formed was destined to endure amid stress and storm for two decades. The rules there adopted, although annually amended and extended, are nevertheless basically the rules that regulate play today, and the three great series of football contests thus founded--Harvard-Princeton, Princeton-Yale, and Harvard-Yale--today are the classic centres around which a hundred others thrive...
...proclamation was made amid scenes of indescribable enthusiasm. This action by the Dodecanesians was provoked by the exceedingly severe measures taken by the Italian authorities, which resulted in sanguinary conflicts in several islands, notably Rhodes, between the Italian carabinieri and the islanders...
Harvard has no room for men who are attracted by high pay. Increase of salary would be a further bridging of the narrow gulf that separates us from commercial institutions. Scholars are not out for money, they want to work in sympathetic company, amid congenial surroundings. They run no race with bankers, corporation lawyers, or fashionable practitioners. They are directed toward a different goal. They ask for bread, not for stones...