Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University and signed by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. It contained Air. Mellon's theory of foreign debt settlements and a systematic rebuke to the academicians of Princeton and Columbia who recently urged a reconsideration and revision of the debt pacts. Soon President Hibben replied, and amid the clash of opinions facts became cloudy. But the following facts, as stated by Secretary Mellon, were not challenged...
Proceeding to Dunedin, New Zealand, the Duke was greeted amid a frenzy of enthusiasm so great that 107 persons, mostly children, fainted in the crush. Concerned, H. R. H. went personally to a first aid station where doctors were working over the unconscious patriots and did not leave until all there had recovered...
Five thousand Russians paid $6,000 to hear famed Menshevik* Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, onetime Russian Dictator, speak at the Century Theatre, Manhattan. Amid furious excitement a half-ton bronze candelabra was uprooted and flung down in the lobby by the sheer pressure of the crowd. Bolsheviks† yelled. Tsarists brandished canes. Both factions detest M. Kerensky because he is more radical than the Tsarists and less radical than the Bolsheviks...
...Soon, amid pandemonium, 25 Russians were ejected, including Andrew Tolstoy who was marched roughly into the street by Patrolman Higginson. "He says," the patrolman told reporters, "that he is related to some Wop Count that's dead, and used to write books...
...small part to taking no back talk from motorists. I stand up here and scowl at 'em and the best of 'em go by in silence." Just then he became aware of violent horn tooting, and blowing his whistle released the jam which had developed during the conversation. Amid stately sweeps of the hand the cars sped past leaving the isolated bluecoat marooned on his roost...