Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grapple with this Anglo-British declaration Adolf Hitler canceled all other engagements for ten days. The sabre-scarred aristocrats hoped that the mountains of documents were giving him headaches. Seated amidst them Der Reichs-fűhrer talked with Germans whom he trusts, emerged daisy-fresh, dashed to his Bavarian mountain snuggery. There, amid rarefied ozone, the Hitler intuition functions best. Last week the Realmleader again proved he is nobody's fool by releasing a declaration grudgingly admitted in Paris to be "extremely clever...
Calm and cool amidst the feverish preparations for the coming of the country's Chief Executive, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard Police, lends a reassuring and accustomed note to the great influx of assorted government agents, uniformed, plain clothed, and garbed in a variety of terrifying disguises...
...reproachfully, perhaps, by the gift of an inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...
...Houston, and another by Bacon, brought it well up to Princeton's goal. After some sharp playing on both sides, the ball was passed to Holmes, who, by a fine rush, secured the first touchdown for Harvard. Captain Cushing attempted to kick it over the goal, but failed, amidst shouts of joy by the supporters of Princeton. Soon after, the referee called time, and both teams retired to rest awhile before the next three-quarters began...
...only one person is exposed as the murderer) and various other nefarious strategies. The most plausible offenses are the doping of the players' gloves with a chemical intended to injure hands badly, and a bullet fired by the unseen murderer at a player about to make home amidst a roar of applause. Aside from the fact that the player is shot through the heart at a distance of a whole ball field and a street, the idea is pretty good, as no gun could be heard in the roar of a baseball game. At any rate...