Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their darkies against each other, found themselves in the shadow of black fighters such as Vesey, L'Ouverture, and Turner and did not wish to promote combativeness of any form among their slaves. How could they make their other slaves stand in fear if there were a black man amongst them who could equal John L. Sullivan's famous boast, "My name is John L. Sullivan and I can whip any sonofabitch alive...
What constitutes a major advancement are a "now perception of relationships" and a "substantial impact that leads to further knowledge." the study explained. Amongst the 62 innovations cited were the works of Mao Tse-tung, Gandhi, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Lenin and Henbert Marcuse...
Captain Crunch has departed from the CRIMSON sports cube. We shall all treasure the valuable prizes we found amongst the sugar-coated prose. All that remains, perhaps, are some memoirs, such as "What the CRIMSON-Yale-Daily Game Meant...
...they have their own style, difficult to understand and difficult to impute any specific significance. But the impression is powerful. Their idiosyncrasies give glimpses of a deeply complex community. A certain sympathy exists amongst the natives that expresses a psychic life peculiar to themselves...
...popular outlet for urban athletes from overcrowded slums. Although American championship circles were predominantly WASPish or Irish Catholic, there were many amateur clubs where local heroes could box for fun, a prize, or a small purse, and an entire corps of talented black boxers (forced to fight mainly amongst themselves due to ring economics). Sam Langford, Joe Jeannette, and Sam McVey were so good that Johnson himself wouldn't box them when he held the title, though he had defeated each of them earlier...