Word: amide
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...Their one regret is that they cannot greet you in this building. Yet there is no building that could withstand the shock of their greeting. And so they are now gathering outside, amid surroundings that have become inseparable parts of their lives, to give you a fitting reception in their own barbaric...
...Amid surprise, stillness reigned. No dealer raised the Aga Khan, though amateurs had expected the "Golden Dawn" to bring much more. Why did a 61½% -carat stone of such perfection go so cheap? Attention was distracted from this interesting question for a time by the coincidence that Princess Therese Aga Khan, wife of the Aga Khan III, died in a Paris hospital almost at the moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative...
...self-made" Canadian, he sought the power. Through adroit propaganda in England which reverberated in Canada he was appointed "Canadian Observer" in the theatre of World War. Thereafter his dynamic shrewdness as a commercial intrigant enabled him to break into the newspaper trust amid the War upheaval and established him upon his present eminence...
There rests the crux of Chiang's "Bolshevism." It is rather pan-Chinese patriotism. As he walks among his soldiers they cry: "China for the Chinese!" Amid the present 15-year-old Chinese anarchy, Chiang Kai-shek is at tempting to create a strong Chinese government and has employed Michael Borodin and everyone else who would aid him. A Cantonese Government of all China would undoubtedly be laid out on modified principles of Communism. If stable, such a government would be preferred even by the Conservatives in Downing Street to another 15 years of Chinese anarchy, as the best...
...down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago Coliseum waited. Referee Yanger raised Walker's hand, gave him the middleweight championship of the world, amid the boos and groans of those who thought Flowers had the best...