Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time adding impetus to personal intellectual progress. Always conservative and with an eye to the college as a unit. Yale is in a position to conduct an experiment all the more significant be cause of the trend of the times in presenting problems which have to be met in an entirely original manner...
...game had so far palled, and so far deteriorated from the exalted pastime it was meant to be, that the men who still make a living from it changed its character. It was on top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., that the Klan's 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving Day, 1915, to swear their tremendous oath, but last week it was in stuffy meeting halls and hackneyed offices that Klansmen met to obey the following "edict" of Emperor and Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans...
...tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears the tick of a clock. They go down into the vault of the lighthouse where an octopus tickles Mr. Kelly between his shivering ribs while nobody is looking. Upstairs...
Pierre Etchebaster, a Basque from St. Jean de Luz and the Jeu de Paume of Paris, beat the best court tennis players in the U. S. last week in Philadelphia. Jock Soutar, Britisher, met him in the finals for the national championship in the Racquet Club of Philadelphia...
...Howard, head of the E. W. Scripps Co. and its 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers, met some gentlemen from the Guaranty Co., the Chemical National Bank of Manhattan and of Sidlo, Simons, Day & Co. of Denver. The men, like most men in finance, depend for livelihood upon creating new security issues for sale to investors. Mr. Howard's company, they knew, could carry new financing. It had never gone to the general public for funds and it was a great profit-earner. On his part, he could use some millions to pay for papers which he had recently acquired...