Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second, when he was passed by Lowell, who won the race in 5 min 2 1-2 sec. Mr. Lowell then mounted the judges stand and after receiving his prize a magnificent silver tankard leaped from the stand to the ground, and disappeared in the crowd amidst loud shouts of applause...
...clock this morning the Vagabond will make his way to Emerson F. and choosing a convenient seat prepare to hear a subject explained that has always baffled him. The lecture is "Anarchism", and will be given by Dr. Mason. Amidst the confusion and darkness surrounding the Russian revolution, the word anarchy conveys nothing that the bombing of buildings, and slaughter of dissenters. It will be interesting to learn whether there is any constructive theory behind the terrorism...
...undergraduates, who had been transported to Cambridge for that purpose, were then asked to remove their coats and prepare themselves for the paint. This latter was most lavishly spread on the physiognomies of the chosen few, in turn, by R. L. Stough, expert painter of the First National Studios, amidst the smoke and din resulting from the presence of countless newspaper photographers. At the conclusion of this process, the stars of the picture world, to be, were given three minutes each in front of a First National field camera, during which these they were to depict, for the photographer...
...accompanied by no white escort save her cousin, a Miss Hooper. Despatches related how, camping one night near a native road gang, Mrs. Cornish heard a man-eating lion roar, then die of bullets; how, lost in wildest Ukamba, her reserve machine broke down, obliging her to sit up amidst zebras, gazelles, hyenas until midnight, when rescuers came. Mrs. Cornish traveled unarmed...
...scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats, song, dancing, war and many another accessory of civilization are evolved with...