Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier then distributed $100,000 in prizes for the best results in growing wheat. Farmers and humble peasants, abashed but proud, marched on to a raised platform and there were kissed on both cheeks by Il Duce amid the plaudits of the populace...
...professor Keldorfer has set the verse to music and the poem was sung last week for the first time, amid great enthusiasm, at the Music Societies' concert in Vienna...
...Stresmann, grinning amiably, waited for the French statesman and the two went out arm-in-arm to the buffet. There amid the buzz & chatter of delegates, officials and newspapermen, they sat down in a vacant space in the dead centre of the room. Silence fell...
...clanged. All operations were suspended. Busy traders left their posts. Telephone clerks removed the receivers of their instruments from the hooks. Telegraph operators stopped their ticking. All looked up at the rostrum. On the little balcony appeared the cold, scholarly figure of Stock Exchange President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons. Amid a hush he announced that Member Herman W. Booth was expelled from the roster of the Exchange for "conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." It was the first expulsion since July, 1925. Charges. Herman W. Booth was not in Manhattan on the day of his expulsion...
...wings did not raise the curious Tremaine monoplane high enough. Trying to clear a cliff, it bumped into it. The fusilage split and the plane fell amid a flaming mass of sparks. When saviors came they found Flyers George W. D. Covell and Richard S. Waggener, Navy lieutenants, cremated...