Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid extreme suspense the Central Executive Committee handed down a joint 5,000-word decision which was puzzling. For whom was it a victory? On one hand it declared: "The joint plenary session has accepted in foundation a resolution for the expulsion of Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee." But the resolution went on to say: "The Opposition have found it necessary to give way and to renounce a number of their errors and to agree basically (although with excuses) to proposals of the plenary session by giving a declaration. ... In view of this declaration, the plenary session...
Thus imperially favored, General Tanaka became three times War Minister between 1918 and 1923. Two years later he was chosen leader of the Seiyukai party, and amid the national financial crisis of last spring he became Premier (TIME, May 2). All his life Baron Tanaka has had the honorable reputation of being a good fellow. His powerful constitution seems to make only a favorable reaction to quantities of the finer alcoholic beverages; and he is considered one of the most gentlemanly frequenters of geisha houses in Japan...
...Stillman's lips went thin with fury. She picked up a plate and flung it at a tall crank-grinder in a fantastic sweater. It landed amid the punch glasses with dreadful effect. Another plate tinkled through a window. The cameras stopped clicking but Mrs. Stillman hurled more plates, glasses, round epithets. She managed to score at least two direct hits before the intruders hurdled the table and escaped...
...Since King Ferdinand's career passed chiefly among persons now dead, and amid situations now altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their...
Because Persia lies strategically at the side door of India and at the back door of Russia,* a struggle to dominate the Government of Persia was waged between British and Russian agents, up to the period of the World War, on a basis of flagrant bribery and corruption. Amid the idealistic post-War period Persia barely escaped falling to the British Empire as a "mandate." Then the power of Soviet Russia gathered might, and the old Anglo-Russian struggle began again at Teheran. Finally the Government of Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward...