Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Baldwin (rising amid cheers after an interval of wild disorder, and recapitulating at length the Government's arguments in favor of the bill) : "Even now I believe that after this bill is passed a settlement satisfactory to all may be reached if the Miners Federation will cooperate to increase the efficiency of the coal industry by accepting the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission's report." (TIME...
Correspondents ruefully discovered that with the recent advent of M. Caillaux (TIME, July 5) the Finance Ministry could now be expected to deny at eve its morning statements to the press. Amid this aura of uneasiness and suspicion, the franc sought a new low, 36.88 to the dollar...
...rescued from a sentence of execution arising out of his unquenchable revolutionary activities by a popular demonstration without its like in the history of Peru. His official "coronation" at Lima as "Poet of America" followed amid a general public festival. President Leguia, "the bantam Mussolini of Peru" (TIME, Dec. 7), bestowed upon him a golden laurel crown. With unique audacity he suggested that "the crown would be improved by the addition of a sufficient number of emeralds to give it a leafy green appearance." A subscription was raised. The emeralds were added...
...hour later, when her match with Mrs. O. J. Dewhurst, a second-rank English player, had been definitely postponed, she drove up in an open Rolls Royce, sent her apologies to the Queen. She had not felt like playing, she said. Then, amid lusty English boos, she drove off. Said the London Daily News: "By being indisposed, Mile Lenglen has created a bigger sensation than if Poincaré had publicly embraced Caillaux...
Married. Ermino Spalla, onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, to Senorita Esmeralda Ascoli; at Rome, amid a crowd of enthusiasts...