Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, Feb. 26--Contrary to popular imagination, the last weeks of the Lent term are amongst the busiest of the whole academic year. It is, in vulgar parlance, the close of the "winter season", the time when the piece de resistance of many a club and society's program is held, whilst "annual dinners" are consumed nightly in the hostelries of the town...
...that her work in the world is to use in the political salons of Europe the weapon of her old mind sheathed in a young body. What she thought was love of Lee Clavering was only an attachment to the idea of the romance she had never had, amongst all the polished intrigues of her career. She was too old for love...
...Hill Monument, the Old North Church, the birthplace of Paul Revere. Nor need it go so far afield for novelties: the glass flowers in the Agassiz Museum, common topic of conversation, though they may be, are almost as little known as the Arboretum in remote Jamaica. A little browsing amongst out-of-the-way places in the vicinity has its own rewards; furthermore, it serves double duty in the General Examination of tea-table discourse...
...University tournament. The final match of the season will be held with the Union Boat Club on January 13, and will be by far the hardest of the whole season, since it was this team, practically unchanged, that defeated the University for the state championship last winter. Amongst the numerous high-ranking players on this team is C. C. Peabody, last year's captain, national and state champion in 1920 and state champion again last year...
...what he may gain. He lacketh the gentler qualities of good breeding. His garments offendeth our eyes. He gaineth mental prowess only by long labour which we disdain. Wherefore is he here? His preparation was among persons of his own sort and now he cometh from them, intruding here amongst...