Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waging Peace." The Navy regards itself as an organization for national defense. "But," says the Navy, paraphrasing Karl von Clausewitz† "the best defense is a strong offense." The farther from U. S. shores an enemy could be met, the prouder and happier the Navy would be. The Navy does not boast that one U. S. sailor is a match for any two foreigners but it firmly believes that if the U. S. sailor is armed as well as any foreigner, no one will ever come to war with...
Late in the afternoon the two prisoners met in a corridor. It was the exercise period. The guards were a few steps away. The other prisoners stood in a huddled circle. William Reid moved suddenly. "Red" Moran felt a sharp jagged blade tearing through clothes, tearing through his flesh...
Yale has made the best showing this year that it has ever made. It met Buffalo in the first round of the national tournament and was beaten by the close score of 3 to 2. Gillespie and Simonds were the winners in this match. Yale will be at a slight disadvantage in the match this afternoon since their courts are considerably smaller than those of the University...
...some portly oil barons met in a Manhattan hotel room and the now-extinct Continental Trading Co. of Canada bought 33,333,333 bbls. of oil for $1.50 per barrel. The same day, the Continental Co. sold the same oil for $1.75 per barrel to the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, instantly netting some eight million dollars on paper.* The strange thing was that a third company, which guaranteed the Continental purchase, was jointly owned by Sinclair, who controlled Continental and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, which was buying from Continental...
...hurry. This is usually impossible, and no method of removing men alive from a trapped vessel has yet proved satisfactory. My suggestion would be to have a lock arrangement constructed in the submarine, through which the men could pass one at a time, and on the outside have them met by divers with extra helmets, who would accompany them...