Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classic "German atrocity" barely eclipsed by the shooting of Nurse Edith Cavell. Classic too is the furious quarrel which has raged for more than a year about what inscription shall stand over the new Library of Louvain, built with U. S. cash (TIME, Oct. 17, 1927, et seq.). Even amid the excitement of campaigning to become President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover found time to air his strong view about the inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant was the triumph of the new library's U. S. architect, potent and temperamental Whitney...
Parliament met to elect the new Regent amid tensest excitement, for representatives of the majority Peasant Party had not yet been instructed for whom they were to vote. With a worried pucker in his brow Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu convoked his Cabinet for a last minute huddle behind locked doors. Several U. S. correspondents present bulletined to their editors: The likeliest candidate for the Regency is Queen Marie...
...have thumbed dead instruments in a vain attempt to get material over the wet wire in time for the football extra or evening edition will bear grateful testimony to the wisdom of the Athletic Association. And those who have hurriedly pushed the last few sentences along a hesitating wire amid sullen curses addressed to weather conditions and press boxes alike, will be the first to realize the paper value and so the money value of conditions conducive to speed and comfort in play by play reporting...
...Amid a rising storm of comment, Rector Blackshear stuck to his announcement, explained he had done it as a matter of "church policy" and as a "friend to the Negro race." Reasons he gave were: "I do not wish to take support from the two churches for colored people in the neighborhood. Furthermore, in these congregations Negroes can develop their power of leadership, whereas in white congregations they are bound to be subdued...
...watch (4 a.m. to 8 a.m.) took his post he had a dirty murk to peer into. It was not the kind of night that makes men love the sea, but soon the lookout heard something that made him glad he was on a ship. Coming closer, droning deep amid the seethe and hiss of the waves, he heard an airplane's motor. Then he saw an airplane, flying low to the waves. It was headed east-toward Europe...