Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then spoke Old Paul, serious amidst much jollity...
...been attacked by armed robbers. . . . Superiority of our firearms prevented bloodshed. In spite of Tibet passports, expedition forcibly stopped by Tibetan authorities on Oct. 6, two days north of Nagchu. . . . With inhuman cruelty expedition has been detained for five months at altitude of 15,000 feet in Summer tents amidst severe cold, about minus 40 degrees Centigrade...
...important thing for the present is, however, that amidst all the hurry and rush of the times, there has been one man,--President Lowell,--who has not been too busy to provide for a possible future return to the art of living and eating when all good trenchermen will gather around the ancestral plate...
...have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards eliminating the old "firetrap" hazard. To the students living in these halls, the improvement is decidedly welcome. For "the old order changeth, yielding place to new," and where 1927 sat amidst the reeking traditions of its predecessors, 1928 will enjoy the comforts of a modern hotel...
...orchestral composer," Schubert "the greatest song writer." Both were German contemporaries, both suffered cruel affliction, neither married. With that the similarity ends. Where Beethoven, the austere, cried out in the music of every man's sorrow, Schubert, the gentle, preferred a lyrical opiate. Where Beethoven, the Master, died amidst reverence in a thunderstorm, Schubert, the unknown, passed away in ignominy. It is said that they met on one occasion when Schubert, struggling against shyness, made bold to visit the leonine Beethoven. Beethoven, as was his custom, received all visitors with overwhelming cere mony. Schubert was awed by the torrential...