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Word: met (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt but that its failure to appear this year has been a distinct inconvenience, and has discovered a distinct need for its appearance next year. The Student Council, however, did not feel justified in hiring a non-graduate to put out the Register, for such a scheme has never met with success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT YOUR SERVICE | 3/10/1927 | See Source »

...fourth point which met the track coaches appropriation was the adoption of a new scale of penalties for jumping the gun in flat races. Runners are penalized differently according to the distance of the race, the size of the penalty varying from one foot in a fifty yard dash to three yards in events of 440 yards and over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR OUT OF FIVE RULES APPROVED BY FARRELL | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

Since then there has been impenetrable silence. It is understood that efforts have been made toward raising the necessary endowment. It is also understood that these efforts have met with considerable alumni opposition to the proposed form of the memorial. Appleton Chapel is more than adequate to the religious life of contemporary Harvard. Are there not other and greater opportunities fittingly to honor Harvard's dead in the almost boundloss field of this University's activity? This, according to well-founded rumor, is the general platform upon which the opposition takes its stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S WAR MEMORIAL | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

Such a memorial should receive unanimous and enthusiastic support. Whatever its fate, however, the very pressing problem of the chapel must be met by the administration before the flight of time sullies Harvard's recognition of her dead and destroys the meaning of their sacrifice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S WAR MEMORIAL | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...York Clarence C. Pell of that city met Hewitt Morgan also of that city in the finals of the national amateur racquets tournament, Mr. Morgan having previously disposed of Stanley G. Mortimer, defending champion. Mr. Pell smashed hard drives to the front wall; drove the ball close to one side wall and then close to the other; employed a baffling change of pace; overwhelmed his opponent, 15-4, 15-9, 15-7. Winning is no novelty to Mr. Pell. At the conclusion of this tournament he found himself U. S. singles champion for the eighth time, co-holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Let | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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