Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant of the fir-groves, whose dark corridors were stirred by the slightest wind; the hiccup of new springs gushing out amidst the pastures; the brooks licking the weeds with their greedy lapping tongues; the creaking of sick trees already bare and slowly cracking in two ; the hollow rumbling of the big river swelling down below in the shadows of the valley...
...minutes after the hour fly by, the voices screaming for the return of the blue books become more and more like the noises of ringleaders at the circus, certainly not soothing to students who are putting on their coats and preparing to leave the scene of slaughter. And amidst all this excitement it is perfectly possible for the students who are willing to take advantage of the situation to continue writing for five, and sometimes even seven or ten, minutes after the examination has come to its official close...
...Economics here, declares in reference to the recent Walsh-Sweezy case "Once more Harvard has fumbled the ball. Once more the university, in its dismissal of two liberal economic instructors has exasperated its friends and delighted it critics by a clumsy substitution of one impracticable subterfuge for another" Amidst an angry undercurrent of rhetoric, Mr. Lamb moves laboriously on to make his final, crushing point. This it turns out, is that "Harvard has moved a long way to the right. Now a formation of a teachers' union in the Yard . . . . causes the authorities such acute discomfort that the organizers...
...velleities toward the good life, true taste, beautiful women who were also ladies weakened as he drew on toward middle age; but before he had resigned himself to the role of gentleman amidst inferiors a legacy gave him the means of making a new start. He left his vulgar acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately...
...Cambridge, a superior system is in existence. There is a long Vacation Term. This nebulous assembly does not count as full term, there are no proctors, no bursarial charges, few lectures and few official sports. Officially an opportunity for extra study and vacation work amidst suitable surroundings, this Long Vac Term is a godsend to the man who has no plans for the summer but does not wish to stay at home. Of six thousand undergraduates some thousand are usually in residence for the Long Vac Term. A few of them work, having failed exams in June which they...