Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soda-drinkers, there arises something besides carbon dioxide gas. Sparkling behind these bubbles is a personality, the personality of handsome, dark-haired Bertha Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband's bubbles as vice-president of the company, which she watched carefully as it developed a turnover of some...
Frederick Edwin ("Galloper") Smith, 54, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), First Baron Birkenhead (1919), First Earl of Birkenhead (1922), has met success as often as any man in England (TIME, May 3). There are those who, reflecting on his delight in a cold bottle and a warm companion, would scarcely call his wooing of success quite "gentlemanly." But the present Secretary of State for India, brilliant, resourceful, has at least no false pride...
...this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian Empire. Specifically he protested to the League that Abyssinia, a League-member-state since 1923, should be obliged to tolerate the existence of a series of Anglo-Italian notes, exchanged last...
...Met last week that august and efficient, if sometimes long-winded body, the French Academy of Science. Among many reports read before them, two merited international attention...
Bethlehem Steel directors met last week. President Eugene G. Grace told them that the corporation's income the last six months was $11,213,873 ($7,494,707 in 1925) or $4.36 a share on common ($2.93 in 1925), that orders on hand June 30 were $50,010,117 ($59,390,376 Mar. 31; $50,342,813 June 30, 1925), that production was at 72% of capacity (56% last July). Directors made no move to resume Bethlehem common dividends payments...