Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quinn has passed. In the decade or so of his incumbency he has became almost a tradition. But traditions have a ruthless way of disappearing amid the torch lights of the innovator, and the ex-Mayor, who tried so hard to hitch Harvard to his band-wagon, will be present only on the tire covers of a few autos until they also reach the discarded stage. Thus, as Cambridge becomes industrialized, does good fellowship give way to efficiency...
...Amid the turmoil and confusion of the Boston city elections today there is one referendum which has been unanimously indorsed by the survey committee of Boston public schools, in which President Lowell represents his honor, the mayor of Boston. The passage of this "Act to establish a board of Commissioners of school buildings and a department of school buildings in the City of Boston" has received strong support from educators in the vicinity, but the opponents of the referendum predict a close contest...
...naked girl with sleek black hair against a bright halo, riding one of three large white camels beneath a great swirl of checkered cloth and amid a riotous procession of companions, awaits the inspection, through lorgnette and opera glass, of the first families of Chicago...
...sewed up his gaping incisions with admirable neatness - as neatly as a cobbler stitching uppers to a sole. Last week a stern Kiev judge sentenced "The Slasher" to six years in jail. He had confessed that his real name is Ivan Kolesnikov, his true profession shoemaking. Eight years ago, amid the chaos of post-Revolution Russia, he stole the diploma and paraphernalia of a certain assassinated Dr. Nelski, palmed himself off as a surgeon on ignorant Tashkenters. "I looked upon him as a man of practical efficiency," testified Kiev's Comrade Health Director, and four Health Inspectors stoutly praised...
...They were men's screams. "Stop! Call the guard!" cried the Empress. "Something terrible is happening!'' "Your Majesty need experience no alarm," soothed a punctilious equerry. "This is merely the hour for flogging military delinquents." Flashing-eyed, the petite Empress insisted on alighting from her coach. Amid courtier consternation she actually walked the short distance back to the Hofburg, rushed impulsively up the marble stairs to find her young husband Franz-remembered today as the venerable, majestic Emperor Franz Josef of Austria Hungary. "You must stop them from flogging your soldiers!" cried Elizabeth. To Franz Josef this...