Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Championing these gentry, Mr. Chamberlain queried oratorically amid lively applause, "Why should not we be free to take advantage of the skill of any man qualified or unqualified, it being understood that anyone who goes to an unqualified man goes at his own risk, and must take the consequences?" The temper of the House was seen to be so markedly against the resolution that it was allowed to peter out by general assent, although no actual vote was taken. U. S. physicians recalled that famed vegetarian G. B. Shaw and numerous other enlightened Englishmen swear by the officially non-existent...
Even as the Speisehause tables trembled, while many a platte of ripe Bavarian sausage crashed to the floor, the Deputies of the Reichstag were at work upon an official condemnation of Mussolini, which they voted amid angry gutteral acclaim...
...Amid pandemonium, the Fascists threw their own hats, and all the hats they could snatch, into the air. Mistaking a streetcar employe with a red "danger" flag for a Communist, they drubbed him soundly. Premier Poullet "turned pale," escaped discreetly through the back door of the Museum, leaving Crown Prince Leopold to receive the Fascists' cheers...
...week opened, the Deputies of the Left parties, composing former Premier Herriot's famed but unstable Cartel des Gauches, continued their efforts (amid great confusion) to get the Cartel finance bill voted item by item (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante...
...many a prize by exercising it competitively, and it is his habit to enter the wards with music in his throat Bending over to change a dressing he will flood his patient with, perhaps, the rhapsodic Prize Song from Die Meistersingers. Even whetting his scalpel, even plying it amid quivering tendons and tissue, he will chant a soft aria from The Barber of Seville. Aside from the pleasure it gives his effervescent nature, Dr. Hybbinette believes- and last week's flood of felicitations seemed to bear him out-that his hospital singing cheers patients to recovery, banishes their fear...