Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guardian, the source of her wealth the engineer encounters him drugged and near death in his automobile before his house. Detectives are called. In their presence and that of his family the guardian, about to revive, is shot dead. No one sees the murderer. The search amid exciting intrigue continues all night in a house guarded by a cordon of detectives. Towards morning the murderer is discovered and the book ends...
...miles from Lagos, the Prince was received by an assemblage of native chiefs in solemn pomp. Many gifts of the purest gold were made and after a stay of two days, during which he played tennis and polo, the Prince returned to the sea and the Repulse, which, amid the cheering hullabaloo from the shore, turned her bows toward the south and churned her way to Cape Town, the point de départ for an extended tour of the Union of South Africa...
...blinding flash, a terrific roar and the entire south wall and a large section of the roof of the Cathedral crumbled and crashed to the ground; many surrounding buildings were ruined, windows for yards around splintered. The crowd stood still for one ghastly second, then fled pellmell. Amid cries of the wounded and dying the military threw a cordon around the stricken area, filled with poisonous fumes from the exploded pyroxylin bomb. Surgeons, soldiers and members of the Cabinet-except Minister of the Interior Rouseff and Minister of Justice Boloshersky (dead), Premier Tsankoff and War Minister Vulkoff (slightly injured)-rendered...
...Kentucky, diggers from the University of Kentucky unearthed 21 Indian skeletons, sitting up in their graves amid shell and bone implements and ornaments unlike any ever before found. The graves, discovered two feet deep in cultivated fields, were in an area of Mason County, near May's Lick, where mastodon bones were once found...
...competition with eight rowers of the University of California. The shells slid like yellow-legged waterbugs over the shining surface of a Pacific estuary, at first close together, at the end separated by a gap as long as 15 boats. Small craft edged up, bellowed brassily, airplanes curvetted amid ice-cream clouds. Washington had won, had set a new course record...