Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roper, the other speaker at the meeting, amid cheers, said, "The World thinks that Princeton and Harvard are going to fight for the booby prize, and that afterwards we shall lay our heads on the block for Yale...
Before he was whirled away amid cheering throngs, Mr. Chamberlain spoke a few words of thanks to representatives of the British press for their work at Locarno, which he said was "often a help and never a hindrance to our efforts." He also issued an official statement, in part as follows: "I am full of gratitude that it has been given to me to represent my Sovereign at such a moment. The treaties initialed at Locarno threaten no one, are directed against no nation, secure the safety of many and are welcomed...
With alarums, excursions and whoops London Reds staged an impassioned demonstration last week before Bow Street Police Court. Red flags were swished and flaunted, the Communist Anthem was chanted ferociously off key. Within the court, Britain's "war on Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26) was gathering cautious headway amid all this tumult. The noted Communists* arrested a fortnight ago were arraigned at a Magistrate's hearing, and Sir Travers Humphreys, acting for the director of Public Prosecutions, set forth the new policy of the Baldwin Government in resorting to stern measures against the Reds, as follows...
Michael Scarlett, later the Earl of Dunbury and title character of the new novel, is set in a story of Elizabethan life in London. The tale is racy and dramatic and tells of Scarlett's adventures with Nashe and Marlowe at a great English university and subsequently amid the feuds and brawls which characterized London life at that period...
...uproar caused by his sententious eloquence paralleled Corneille's presentation of Le Cid in 17th Century Paris, and drew such attention that in 1905 Oxford hailed him as "Doctor" and in 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. More recently he remarried and built a home amid the towering crags of Silesia...