Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already cost the British taxpayer £100,000,000 (nearly half a billion dollars), there is the most intense opposition to its continuance* by all unsubsidized taxpayers. At the same time, the miners insisted last week, that they would walk out May, 1, unless their wage demands were met; and the owners vowed they would lock the miners out rather than pay the wage demanded, unless the government continues its subsidy...
Publishers. The biggest, the central town criers' gathering, was that of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. They met in the big Waldorf ballroom and reporters stood at the door jotting down, together with the great names of U. S. newspaperdom, other publishing names variously distinguished: J. W. Green of the Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock...
...Dallas, Tex., last week, some 6,000 members of the American Medical Association met in annual convention, ate 4,000 pounds of barbecue young beef, attended eight scientific sections, elected Dr. Wendell Christopher Phillips, great aural surgeon of Manhattan, president...
...professors and students of New York University have met on a new field of honor. Their jousting ground is a sheet of paper; their passage of arms the United States mail. Each side propounds question after its own kind, the professors chiefly wanting to know which end of a cow rises first and the students abhirs to discover why tourists visited Montreal before...
...would, hence, be hard to consider the journalistic evils of our time as fit subjects for execration or ingenious reform. They are rather a symptom of a state and condition of society which is to be met and considered not alone in a dissemination of the news, but in industrial strife, in social stratification, and increasingly in political agitation...