Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When there are no longer lawyers amongst us willing to throw themselves between their clients and the massed weight to society, then justice, and life as we know it, will end," Paul Stryker told a capacity audience in Langdell Hall yesterday afternoon...
...discussing his survey before the Mariological Society of America, Father Dougherty spoke warmly of the Protestant minority who believe that Mary was in fact the mother of God. "These children of Mary are in truth amongst a strange company in the sects. There are signs of intensified protests against Our Lady evoked by controversialists . . . It may happen that these controversies may be a way of light for the defenders of Mary in the sects, a way back to the church...
...told the board, "to ease the heavy administrative burdens which . . . have so taxed my nervous and physical energies." In contrast to the Met, the job in Worcester offers "opportunities of time and leisure for travel abroad, research and the pursuit of my literary interest in congenial and familiar surroundings, amongst old friends," he added, "and I will thus be able to devote the balance of my career to the scholarship and connoisseurship which originally attracted me to the profession...
...book, "They Went to College," by Sarnest Havemann and Patricia Salter West, based on a survey made by Time Incorporated, it is stated that banking amongst all other businesses had the highest percentage (30 per cent) of College graduates earning $7,500 per annum and over, and only the professions of law, medicine and dentistry had a higher percentage...
...evidence of hunger or famine. Indeed, it would be impossible for the people to work as hard as they do if they were not receiving adequate food." Old China hands among the correspondents disagreed: "All gaiety and charm have disappeared," wrote one. "There are obvious signs of starvation amongst many potbellied, naked little boys and girls sitting apathetically beside gutters...