Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidence. Lawyer Owen J. Roberts (prosecution) showed that Fall visited Manhattan for two days in February, 1922, just prior to receiving Sinclair's bid for the lease. Sinclair was in Manhattan. Oddly, Sinclair's bid met the Interior Department's specifications for the lease almost exactly. Did Fall write Sinclair...
Their Majesties sipped tea, last week, in crumpet passing proximity to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. The chat waxed cordial and lasted for two hours. It took place neither at punctilious Buckingham Palace nor in the spacious hotel suite of Henry Ford (TIME, April 16). Royalty & Fords met before the cozy country hearth of famed Viscountess Astor at Cliveden, 20 miles from London. She, vivacious, hospitable, bred in Virginia, but now a British peeress and M. P., seemed the ideal international hostess. Gossip told that the conversation of Her Majesty and Mrs. Ford was at all times stately, that...
Although men have, until comparatively recent times, persistently sought to find some mystical significance in numbers their efforts have met with but little success. The attempt to prove that qualities of good and evil are inherent in the number 7 and the number 13 respectively, has been virtually abandoned; human ingenuity has turned rather to a study of numbers in their relation to each other. While the mystic has discovered that numbers in themselves signify nothing, the mathematician has found that numbers in series or in combinations may mean a great deal...
...larger, brethren, there have been discussions over wet and dry planks, but the delegates did not devote themselves too seriously to work. For a demonstration of some practical politics they investigated establishments where their doctrines were being applied, attended dinners given in their honor, and between times met to consider the possibilities for nomination open to them...
...Caldwell, N. J., the members of the First Presbyterian Church met to decide what to do with their benevolence budget of $5,500. By a vote that was three less than unanimous, they decided to discontinue their annual contribution of $250 to the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League. "The League," they said, "is no longer a charitable organization...