Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stone wall against which horns scraped as the master leaped clear. Eight times this sport was repeated, on the rough, treacherous street. Then Fortuna's frenzied amigo arrived, panting, to proffer him a sword. "Too bad, my little one," cried Fortuna to the bull. "We should have met fairly in the ring. . . . So! . . . So . . . ," and he withdrew a dripping sword...
...afternoon of July 30, 1844, John C. Stevens, on his yacht Gimcrack in the New York harbor off the Battery, met a group of men including John C. Jay, George L. Schuyler, James M. Waterbury and founded the New York Yacht Club. Its first clubhouse nestled on Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J. Its present home on West 44th Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships...
...secret. For some time plans had been brewing to land the giant dirigible Los Angeles on the deck of the aircraft carrier Saratoga. So delicate and important was the experiment that news was guarded until the trick was turned. Nosing out to sea last week the Los An-geles met the Saratoga off the Virginia Capes. Both headed into the light, gusty wind. The dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose smelling the sea ship tentatively. Ropes were...
...battlefield of Flanders, long years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...
Flashing a strong attack in the opening period of its game with Milton Academy, the Freshman hockey team continued its winning streak by triumphing over the schoolboys in a shutout contest. The final score was 3 to 0. The driving offense of the Crimson players was met with stubborn resistance by the Milton team, effectively enough until near the close of the first period, when P. H. Watts '31 broke through the preparatory school's defense to score...