Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless by accident. He never calls on anyone, is seldom seen outside of his gate...
...Napoleon's Nose, Transformed into a Pregnant Woman, Strolling His Shadow with Melancholia amongst Original Riiins...
...clergy, educators, labor unions" could walk amongst the rows of white crosses in the cemeteries; if they could see a boy die, or smell the stench of death, they could realize how fed up and tired and sick we are of seeing soldiers killed. It is up to us to prevent as many deaths as we can in the next war. This requires training for the men who will fight it-this requires conscription...
...story on Palestine in TIME (Nov. 13) has some serious misrepresentations which I feel duty bound to correct. Most serious amongst these is the implication of any contact between the so-called Israel Freedom Fighters and the Germans...
...after his two sons had been expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag, sing God Save the King or repeat an oath of allegiance. Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing of the national anthem...