Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representatives of both factions met in London, during the week, and rejected the Government plan, though leaving open the way to future negotiation. Both miners and operators opposed fiercely the Government proposal to place the adjustment of wages in the hands of a board whose neutral chairman would have a casting vote over the equal representatives of mine capital and miner labor...
...Girls Go Back Home (Patsy Ruth Miller, Clive Brook). They probably do not. But this one did. She was not more than 20 minutes on her way when the handsome youth appeared down the aisle of the train to make her succeeding years rather less lonely. She had met him when he was an actor in a vagrant troupe of hams. She followed him to Manhattan and made the acquaintance of a few hard facts. All this makes comparatively commendable entertainment...
Last week the officers and friends of the largest zoo in the world met for their annual garden party, in Bronx Zoological Park, New York City. There were tea for the grownups, amiable camels and ponies for the children to ride, and movies of the animals for everyone to see. But also there was sad news. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, for 30 years presiding genius and animal-man of the Bronx, announced his resignation as Director. He was 72 years old and wanted peace and quiet...
Such rigid discipline of sentences produced by tricky parentheses and binding clauses has not met with favor in a liberal world. Rightly enough, the leaders of college composition have rejected the goose-step construction for the more informal expressions of thought. There seems little danger of a formal invasion of college literature, or conversation...
...presents to his little flock have not passed unnoticed. Powerful pastors of powerful churches esteem him well - men like Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of the Central Congregational Church and James Percival Huget of the great Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, who are his neighbors. They and their fellow Congregational ministers met last week in Manhattan to choose a moderator for their New York Association of Congregational churches. They chose Rev. Mr. Proctor...