Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there would be masculine Maude Royden, famed pulpit female, who has a reputation among the timorous British Christians as a dangerous missionary of socialism and amidst the red-hot socialists as a tame and sentimental apostle of Christianity...
...place for the Harvard Memorial is in the college yard. The location has not been definitely decided upon, but we should suppose there would be but little dissent from the selection of site indicated by the plan submitted by the committee. It should be in the yard amidst the surroundings that are most typical of Harvard, where Harvard memories most numerously throng, and where Harvard men are reminded at almost every step of Harvard history and Harvard traditions. Examination of the drawings Indicate that the church as planned will improve greatly the general balance and harmony of the yard, facing...
...such, in a paid newspaper advertisement as blatant as any circus poster, last week spoke one Thomas J. Noonan, superintendent of the Rescue Society, holding a nightly mission in the Old Chinese Theatre on Doyers St., located amidst their haunts. "Evangelistic, enthusiastic, extraordinary," ballyhooed the ad with circus alliteration. "Drunkards, drug addicts, the homeless and friendless especially invited...
...important as giving political accounts an equal chance with those of the criminal is the need of freeing news from editorial bias. Amidst the cross purposes of advertisers, parties and causes, this requirement is an ideal doubtful of realization. Although unwarrantedly bitter, Upton Sinclair of "Brass Check" fame has shown beyond possibility of a libel charge that the opinion of all papers save a chosen few are definitely dominated by the influences of corporation and business...
...fact that youth is naturally self-indulgent or indolent; that in time of war college students would not volunteer for a regiment that would be comfortably and safely housed and exposed to no danger, but would strive to get into the regiment that was going to the front, amidst privation, wounds and death; that youth desired to sacrifice itself for something that was worth while, but that American colleges have by no means wholly succeeded in making their students feel that the intellectual life is worth while. I referred to a committee which in 1903 found respect for intellectual attainment...