Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frequency with which the hydraulics get out of order is a serious annoyance and causes no little expense. At present they are the best adapted to the purpose of anything known, and the trouble they make, like many other obstacles met in the training of the crew, has to be endured as best...
Soon all delegates were busy plowing through 500,000 wards of research material provided by the League Secretariat. No delegate has any power to act for his Government. All are met for full and frank discussion...
Some 60 correspondents assembled last week at Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakian spa. They ferreted industriously, almost hysterically, into the doings of three solemn gentlemen. The gentlemen met every day in a hotel at which the other guests were invalids gulping down incessantly glass after glass of curative, radium-active water...
...three statesmen who met thus in deadly secrecy amid a conclave of water drinkers were the Foreign Ministers of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, countries allied in the so-called "Little Entente...
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen met in a Manhattan theatre last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson...