Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last spring's uprising was only a momentary gesture of those who were soon glad to return to tray-carrying three times a day. For a time it seemed that the tyranny of the cafeterias was to be ended; but the pledge to eat in the promised dining hall met with a disappointing number of signers. There was no specific objection to the food in the Freshman Halls, which was of the quality promised in the new University eating-place; there was simply antipathy among Freshmen to foregoing the doubtful pleasures of a cafeteria menu, and inertia among the upperclassmen...
...House of Representatives and entered the Senate, of which Henry Cabot Lodge had been a distinguished member for fifteen years. Lodge had achieved a position third from the top of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Curtis began at the bottom of a committee which had no work and never met, the Committee on the University of the United States...
Alger Hiss 21, chairman of the Council, will preside at the meeting. Throughout the year the Council has met once a month to discuss questions of international interest, treating international law, prohibition, disarmament, and similar problems...
...Freshmen will meet one of the strongest preparatory school aggregations in the Andover fencers this afternoon. Not yet having met defeat this season, the Freshmen are confident of winning over Andover...
Strangler Lewis and Joe Stecher, a farmer boy who once made a mule lose consciousness by locking its ribs in a scissors hold, met on a mat in St. Louis and pulled at each other's heads for one hour while a sleepy newspaper man snored loudly somewhere near them. After a while Lewis put Stecher down, then put him down again, winning the world's heavyweight wrestling championship...