Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dail Eireann, sixth in the six years that the Irish Free State has existed, met last week in a bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...general public. What he has to say concerning the new Quincy Street building may be accepted as authoritative, for surely there is no better authority for such criticism than a man who has been beset by many of the problems which the planners of the New Fogg have met and overcome...
...third speaker, John Ramage, is a student of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is active in national as well as university politics, having been secretary of the local organization of the British Labor Party. Ramage was a member of the debating team which met the Australian team touring Europe and America on the "White Australia" issue. The debate was presided over by the Right Honorable L. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, and attracted widespread attention as a statement of the color problem in Australia...
...lazy boy who could do nothing better than cut down trees neatly. But, what Uncle Henry, who raised the biggest lettuce heads ever seen in those parts, could never understand, was why Joseph refused to cut down the ash trees. Metabel came to know the reason when she met one day a little green god sitting in the woods and talking to some mice. He preferred ash trees to live under and Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought his daughter. She made...
...even a mere combination of words, impressed themselves on my mind, as distinctly as if I had heard, seen, inhaled or otherwise experienced the same thing already; as though this place or that place, which actually I was seeing for the first time in my present existence, had met my eyes in some dim past...