Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce in charge of commercial aviation (see LEGISLATIVE WEEK). But the debate had little to do with military naval aviation, and so the figure who will probably have most to do with determining the question did not ap- pear. He is the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Amid all the hubbub he has remained silent, venturing no opinions, making no speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume the gavel in the absence of the Vice President, and to introduce a resolution "authorizing the Secretary...
...London, one Alderman Lambeth paused amid dead silence for one minute and twelve seconds during the course of a speech which he was making in Borough Council anent labor conditions. Resuming his speech, he declared: "You have just sat and fidgeted through the 72-second eternity which it takes the average workman to lay one brick...
...choose, in a more obscure and humble position, against many difficulties and amid many humiliations, to continue my task in public life, it is because I want to spend the rest of my days and what is left of my strength in serving the people from whom I sprang...
Shortly afterward the measure passed amid the usual Fascist acclaim...
...Amid feverish excitement the vote was taken. M. Herriot, President of the Chamber, feared it would be so close that he descended to the floor contrary to precedent and cast his ballot for the measure. The count gave M. Briand a bare majority of six-a margin so slim that except in an emergency the Cabinet would have felt called upon to resign...