Word: greet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least four hurlers of proved ability are expected to greet Coach Fred Mitchell at 2 o'clock in the Briggs Cage. Forming one pair are Edmund F. Ingalls '38; burly righthander, who carried a large part of the burden last year, and Richard M. Walsh, Jr. '37, southpaw...
Alighting from a train at Ogden, Utah attired in his Rear Admiral's undress uniform, Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was taken for a stationmaster, passed up by the officials sent to greet him. In Kansas City's Union Station, a woman had handed him a lost purse. Said Admiral Byrd: "Begins to look as if I'll have to do something about...
...rainy morning last week two groups of newshawks arrived at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal in Burbank. One group came to greet famed Explorers Martin and Osa Johnson, due at 10:45 on a Western Air Express plane from Salt Lake City. The other group came to witness the first demonstration of a new radio navigation device developed by Transcontinental & Western Air and just installed in all its planes. The new contrivance, everyone was told, permitted a pilot to find an airport no matter how dirty the weather. TWA's Chief Pilot O. W. Coyle took off with...
...Governor of Edward VIII or George VI, Sir Murchison Fletcher donned his black & gold uniform, his cocked hat with white feathers and had himself ferried out to U. S. S. Indianapolis. If Sir Murchison's stout British heart suffered any anxiety that Franklin Roosevelt might greet him with the same sort of bunny hug lately practiced on President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay (see cut) and other non-British notables, his fears were quickly dissipated. The President shook hands at arm's length, charmed Sir Murchison with nothing more embarrassing than a smile...
...midevening, Hyde Park Democrats paraded onto the lawn before the house and Franklin Roosevelt went out on the terrace to greet them. He had carried his district by 336 votes to Landon's 307, but again lost the village as a whole by nearly 200 votes. "From the returns now it looks as though this sweep has carried every single section of the country," laughed the President...