Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more particularly on this night when the Freshman class as a unit comes out and invades the dizzy social whirl, a whirl which will never again seem either so dizzy or so social, the CRIMSON offers its congratulations and extends metaphorical rose-buds to the debutante who dances amid the Georgian simplicity of the Freshman Halls. Tonight's Jubilee will go down in history as the best ever held, for such is the enviable fate of all Jubilees...
...three statesmen who met thus in deadly secrecy amid a conclave of water drinkers were the Foreign Ministers of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, countries allied in the so-called "Little Entente...
...further bill passed by the Imperial Parliament authorized the Bank of Japan to lend up to 200,000,000 yen ($99,700,000) in order to restore financial institutions in Formosa which went bankrupt amid the panic...
Since all major business of the Conference will be transacted in innumerable sub-committee rooms, the huge public session of last week wore on amid intentionally bromidic set speeches. Even so, U. S. Chief Delegate Henry M. Robinson managed to fall afoul of bland Sir Max Muspratt, President of the British Delegation, and, in business life, president of the immensely potent and monopolistic Federation of British Industries. Naturally, rubber was the elastic bone of the Robinson-Muspratt contention, for the British rubber monopoly (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) has forced U. S. citizens to pay dear for tires, hot-water bottles...
...that Miss Anglin is a truly great tragedienne and director, her deserving of her medal was if anything heightened. The most glib and cocky of metropolitan critics could not deny that the towering pretensions of classicism had been fulfilled. On the vast stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, amid architecture massively austere, Miss Anglin, nobly ominous in black, was supported by a company sharing her earnestness and schooled by her to simplicity of gesture and the slow pace of portentous happenings. Their execution fell short of hers? Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barrymore) slipping sometimes into picayune realism in the role...