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Word: met (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gray team, with their blue prints in hand, ran through the various Harvard plays, with the varsity teams on the defense. Coach Cannell is very skeptical about the ability of his team to stop such an attack, as they have not as yet met any team that uses such an assortment of passes as Harvard has been reported to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMSTRONG, GREEN CAPTAIN, BACK | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

...cheerful development was that 28 Oklahoma oil producers had met, unanimously agreed to put state-wide restrictions into effect. Previous voluntary curtailment, believed by oilmen to be the only remedy for overproduction, had been mostly between operators in a single field. Two such restrictions went in effect in Oklahoma last month and are believed to have been the reason that Midcontinent petroleum prices have been maintained while oil from other fields has been reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist (Lee Patrick), he weds the blonde chit whom he first met on the train (Linda Watkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of acceptability was quite ideally met. Mr. Guggenheim is well acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more experienced professional diplomat had received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Copper & Air Man | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...suggestions that might improve it. So effective was the appeal that it immediately "sold" Daniel Guggenheim on aviation, resulted in the elder Guggenheim himself establishing the now famed $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before the latter's Atlantic flight. After Col. Lindbergh's return from Paris, the Fund made him its Technical Advisor and promoted his state-to-state cross-country junket. Current Fund activities include experimental work in fog-flying and a $100,000 competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Copper & Air Man | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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