Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Washington the commission met for two days to discuss means of attacking its problem. Under its young leader, F. Trubee Davison, son of the late President of the Red Cross and partner of J. P. Morgan, the commission has tried to recruit to its ranks men of prominence, men of ability and men with zeal to make a genuine effort for crime prevention. How well it has succeeded its roster shows: Herbert S. Hadley, former Governor of Missouri and onetime candidate for Vice President; Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Charles E. Hughes, recent Secretary...
Another speaker at the Bankers' Club gathering-met to discuss a music festival to be held this month in Madison Square Garden to raise a fifth of the five millions needed to build the Yeshivah- was Adolph Lewisohn, one of the most intelligent and effective workers on human relationships in the U. S. He referred to the Yeshivah as "the salvation of Judaism," where Jews could acquire a college education in Jewish surroundings and without breaking the Sabbath and other holy days. He said that his own grandsons had been excluded "by one of the East's largest...
Queen Paras (as she may now call herself) stepped upon the shore, friendly but shy. She wore a red and yellow dress and over it a cloak of dark blue silk. Her hair was tied in braids; she wore no bangles. One hundred gypsies met her at the pier; one hundred gypsies escorted her, with shouts and cymbals, to be crowned a queen in Manhattan...
...Pennsylvania team has shown itself to be a strong combination, having won the majority of its games. So far the Penn nine has met the Yale players twice, winning from them in the second game by the score of 5 to 4 after losing the opening encounter...
...infamous, shocking. The duty of the Carnegie Tech student council lay clear before it. Clothed with great dignity, it met behind closed, guarded doors and received Dr. Church to hear any explanations he might have to offer. Dr. Church was full of contrition. With rapt sincerity he said: "There is nothing at Carnegie Tech that can be called drunkenness. . . . Like Hamlet, I have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother. . . . All the statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went...