Word: amide
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...frenzy of his fellow-citizens bidding what is wrong nor by the face of a threatening tyrant nor by the uncontrollable storms of the sea nor by the mighty hand of thundering Jove. If the vault of Heaven should break and crash upon him, he would stand amid its ruins undismayed...
...Italy, and find the statue of George Washington which was modeled by Antonio Canova. This Canova was born on Nov. 1, 1757, at Passagno, an obscure village situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps as they subside into the plains of Treviso. He was the son of a long line of makers of local gravestones, but rose to fame and munificence as one of those who instituted the classical revival of Italian Art. He made statues of Palamedes, of Napoleon, of Hebe, of Hercules and also of George...
...Lake Forest, Ill., the Onwentsia links swarmed with 152 golfing Amazons beginning play for the Women's Western title, but Glenna had not rushed out to mingle with them. Champion Miriam Burns, of Kansas City, and National Champion Edith Cummings ruled the scene. Edith, who was raised amid Ouwentsia's daisies and knows every hole on the prairie, including those made by gophers, had little trouble navigating the rainsoaked course in 84, low medal...
During the past week, the Lord High Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack* and their lordships debated the bill. From amid the encircling gloom arose Dr. Herbert Hensley Henson, whose style is the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham, 86th of those to hold that dignity. The Bishop, so the story ran, "jolted" his fellow Bishops by telling them: "Better a free Britain than a sober one." Such simple, wet words from a leader of the church militant had effect in defeating the bill by 166 to 50 votes. Their dry lordships continued to hold fast to their...
...first decided to call the freak a "liger" (TIME, July 7), but the Zoo declined to stand for it. It was found that the hybrid was not the child of a lion and tigress, but of a tiger and lioness. Amid plaudits from animals it was decided to call the infant hybrid a "Tigon...