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Word: amidst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavyweight crew opens its season today on the Charles River against Syracuse, M.I.T., and B.U. amidst bright prospects; meanwhile the lightweight varsity faces Navy and M.I.T. at Annapolis in its second test...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Heavyweights Open Season | 4/25/1959 | See Source »

...Amidst a dinkum welcome to Australia, at the start of a five-month "crusade for Christ," Evangelist Billy Graham was asked whether he thought his revival gatherings would have a lasting effect, responded with disarming realism: "The effects of a bath don't last long, but you need it, and it's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...current exhibition at Fogg reflects the interest and enthusiasm of Harvard undergraduates in the pursuit of quality. There are paintings here, as well as drawings and prints; there is also an occasional hint of the presence of parent collections amidst examples of more direct commitment and sacrifice. But, in any case, the element of choice and decision is present throughout...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Student Collectors | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

...until he entered a monastery in 1953, as fast-fingered Alto Saxophonist Boyce Brown, a rarely recorded legend of the '30s and '40s, who as a combo colleague of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon helped create Chicago-style jazz, later found time for his horn amidst his humble monastery duties because "good entertainment is good and can be used to serve God''; of a heart attack; in Hillside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...monosexuality of life amidst the monuments of New Haven during the week may be an overemphasis, yet an Eli's social life is geared for the weekend, much in the same manner as that of a girl at an isolated women's college. For on weekends the campus is indundated with females from Vassar, Connecticut, Smith, and other foreign territories...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

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